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2003-05-13 Home Front

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Posted by Steve White 2003-05-13 01:20 am|| || Front Page|| [3 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 I think General Franks thinks that "Baghdad Bob" would be easier to listen to than Tom Daschle

Posted by SOG475 5/13/2003 3:21:41 PM|| 5/13/2003 3:21:41 PM|| Front Page Top

#2 Franks is a class act.

Even when he could've scored PR points by playing along with the not-enough-boots-on-the-ground crowd (no matter which side he was really on), he kept his mouth shut and did the job with what he had at hand. Brilliantly.

Wish there had been guys like him above rank of Major in VietNam.

Posted by PD 2003-05-13 05:35:41|| 2003-05-13 05:35:41|| Front Page Top

#3 PD-
There were guys like him above the rank of major in Viet Nam - see Col. David Hackworth's book "About Face"

Posted by Spot 2003-05-13 08:09:25|| 2003-05-13 08:09:25|| Front Page Top

#4 I think General Franks thinks that "Baghdad Bob" would be easier to listen to than Tom Daschle

Posted by SOG475 2003-05-13 15:21:41|| 2003-05-13 15:21:41|| Front Page Top

#5 My tour in Vietnam was (mostly) inside a three-story air-conditioned, concrete-walled building, and my "day" ran from 7:30PM (1930hrs) to around 8:30-9:00 the next morning. Since I worked right next door to the Targeting office, I met quite a few of the ground-commanders in Vietnam. Most of them were quality people, and good commanders. The problem in Vietnam wasn't the local commanders, but the deadheads in Washington and Hawaii that made decisions without understanding anything about the type of combat being fought in Vietnam

Posted by Old Patriot 2003-05-13 17:01:58|| 2003-05-13 17:01:58|| Front Page Top

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