| Monday, April 17, 2006 |
| Unsurprising headlines: Myers Rummy |
Dick Myers, former Joint Chiefs of Staff chair (and probably the only general who is more solicitous of the administration than Collin Powell) took to the Sunday shows to defend Donald Rumsfeld from the wash of military criticism that has overrun him. In between typical Myersian calls for the military to be nice to the chain of command, he managed to throw in a defense of former Army Chief Shinseki, which the WaPo plays up nicely here. Perhaps the WaPo guys are unaware that Myers has also denied that Shinseki was ridden out of town on a rail by Rummy for speaking out about the number of troops that would be needed to invade Iraq...
Newsweek has more on the revolt of the generals here.
Gen. Tommy Franks, who, like Rumsfeld, will go down in history as a major league screw-up for his conduct of the Iraq invasion aftermath, has been doing some bum-covering of his own lately, basically siding with the administration when it blames the generals for the post-war planning. Whatever, Franks. You might not want to read Tony Zinni's new book. Short version: you're in it. And it ain't good. Oh, and probably skip Cobra II also. You won't like that one much, either...
Tags: Iraq, Rumsfeld, Bush, Politics, War, News, Military, Iraq War |
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