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| Time Magazine's Iraq Negativity |
| 2005-09-20 |
| "We have never taken this operation seriously enough," says a retired senior military official with experience in Iraq. "We have never provided enough troops. We have never provided enough equipment, or the right kind of equipment. We have never worked the intelligence part of the war in a serious, sustained fashion. We have failed the Iraqi people, and we have failed our troops." I think it's possible that Colin Powell, Wesley Clark or Eric Shinseki is the "retired senior military official" with "experience in Iraq." I think that the tip-off that it is not a retired senior military official who actually served in Iraq during Operation Iraqi Freedom is the "experience in Iraq." Cross-posted on my blog: http://incompetenttibor.blogspot.com/ |
| Posted by:Tibor |
| #3 Why anyone with a brian would take Times, Newsweak, or any other MSM publication seriously is beyond belief. This piece is more of the same: identifying another disgruntled, weakling to make a statement that supports the publication's effort to undermine the mission. Who really gives a shit who the person is? This person is NOT a leader and in fact is a piss ant. |
| Posted by: Captain America 2005-09-20 18:59 |
| #2 Give that man the "McClellan" Award for critical analysis of the war. Proves that even though one can be a general doesn't mean one can not also be a fool. Economy of Force Allocate minimum essential combat power to secondary efforts. 4-42. Economy of force is the reciprocal of mass. It requires accepting prudent risk in selected areas to achieve superiority—overwhelming effects—in the decisive operation. Economy of force involves the discriminating employment and distribution of forces. Commanders never leave any element without a purpose. When the time comes to execute, all elements should have tasks to perform. FM-3 OK, General gives us specifics on how you would have otherwise employed additional troops. No generalities, very specific allocations of force. Seems the Commander CENTCOM has never said that any troop request has been refused. So you know more than the theater operational commander, just tell us specifics. We're waiting. |
| Posted by: Glereper Angolutle3263 2005-09-20 09:24 |
| #1 General Garner? |
| Posted by: doc 2005-09-20 09:00 |