Zeev's Turnips Talk Politics (ZTTP)

[SharonB]

San Francisco is also a safe city for illegal immigrants, has the most liberal US Appeals Court with more overturned decisions than all the rest combined, and is winking at the Federal Drug laws regarding marijuana.

The opinions of two Generals. ( that is all it is. What is so enlightening? We all know now there was poor planning for a victory. The war was won; the peace is in question.
We need to give the military the time to do what congress authorized just a few weeks ago. Let it work, iaw congressional orders, AT LEAST until the report by the military and the Ambassador to Iraq in September is presented to Congress. This should be done without interference from our own representatives in Congress. Already the Senate Leader has called the surge a failure. The force restructure, surge, hasn’t even been fully manned for a month yet and there has already been success in some areas, military wise. The purpose is to buy time for the Iraqi politicians to do the necessary legislation. It is political activities that need to step up to the plate. The local areas are proceeding to learn that working with the coalition forces is to their benefit. They are realizing the Al Qaeda has only destruction and misery to offer. I’m very angry that the pols in Iraq are taking the month of August off for a recess. SharonB

Two senior military officers are known to have challenged Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld on the planning of the Iraq war. Army General Eric Shinseki publicly dissented and found himself marginalized. Marine Lieut. General Greg Newbold, the Pentagon's top operations officer, voiced his objections internally and then retired, in part out of opposition to the war. Here, for the first time, Newbold goes public with a full-throated critique:
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1181629-1,00.html