Retired Top Diplomats, Soldiers Tell Bush to Beat It

a good read from back in June.... Some of you may have already read it, if so, just disregard....

''The world's finest army is in the process of being dismembered and destroyed'' as a result of the lack of preparation, the demands being made on it and the Abu Ghraib scandal, said Freeman, who served as ambassador to Saudi Arabia during the first Gulf War.


http://www.commondreams.org/headlines04/0616-06.htm

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WASHINGTON - In an unprecedented broadside, more than two-dozen top retired U.S. career diplomats and military commanders, many of whom reached their top positions under former President George HW Bush, have called for George W Bush to be defeated in his re-election bid in November.


''It is time for a change'', declared a one-page statement by 27 ex-officials released at a press conference here Wednesday. ''Never in the two and a quarter centuries of our history has the United States been so isolated among the nations, so broadly feared and distrusted''.

”The Bush administration has shown that it does not grasp (the) circumstances of the new era, and is not able to rise to the responsibilities of world leadership in either style or substance'', the statement concluded. ''It is time for a change''.

The statement, which had been anticipated since word of its formulation leaked out late last week, is the latest indication that what is sometimes called ''the permanent government'' -- the senior ranks of the professional corps that run U.S. diplomacy, intelligence and the military -- has become entirely disaffected from Bush and especially his foreign policy.

required by the POTUS Office. Because he is lacking, we pay the price....

If they really want the bush cabal turned back, they're going to have to monitor the November elections with software engineers and checkers at every precinct. If not, the damn black boxes are in danger of giving the shithead license to inhabit the white house, once again.

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