The Revolt of the Generals

http://www.counterpunch.com/


"Broken, Worn Out" and "Living Hand to Mouth"

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A CounterPuncher with nearly 40 years experience working in and around the Pentagon told me this week that "The Four Star Generals picked Murtha to make this speech because he has maximum credibility." It's true. Even in the US Senate there's no one with quite Murtha's standing to deliver the message, except maybe for Byrd, but the venerable senator from West Virginia was a vehement opponent of the war from the outset , whereas Murtha voted for it and only recently has turned around.

So the Four-Star Generals briefed Murtha and gave him the state-of-the-art data which made his speech so deadly, stinging the White House into panic-stricken and foolish denunciations of Murtha as a clone of Michael Moore.

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Listen once more to what the generals want the country to know:

"The future of our military is at risk. Our military and our families are stretched thin. Many say the Army is broken. Some of our troops are on a third deployment. Recruitment is down even as the military has lowered its standards. They expect to take 20 percent category 4, which is the lowest category, which they said they'd never take. They have been forced to do that to try to meet a reduced quota.

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may these honorable generals' lives prosper

Some on this very forum accused them of being cowards and careerists. I know what guts it took to get the unvarnished details to the American people, by using Murtha as their mouthpiece. It is not a decision taken lightly, to go around the Commander in Chief.

But these guys are patriots, defenders of the Constitution, and they deserve our thanks, not condemnation.

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It's a lot easier to blow hot air on DU (I should know; I do it enough!) than it is to do what these patriots are doing.

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Republicans are such morons and evil SOB's that they don't listen to the people in charge of carrying out their crusade. No one should believe that there is hope for Georgie to come out of his tantrum like a normal person to pull back the troops. Mainly because he isn't normal, he is a freak and so is his trolls that surround him.