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| Breaking the military men: how Rumsfeld won total command |
| 2006-10-15 |
| The defence secretary reduced hardened generals to quivering wrecks in his single-minded drive to achieve complete control of the Iraq war, says Bob Woodward |
| Posted by:john |
| #7 That what I was thinking, if Rumsfield turned these generals into quivering mass I am glad they are gone damn. |
| Posted by: djohn66 2006-10-15 18:12 |
| #6 The defence secretary reduced hardened generals to quivering wrecks If a 70 year old man can do that, we've really got a bunch of wusses running the Army. And I would not call those guys wusses. |
| Posted by: Nimble Spemble 2006-10-15 16:55 |
| #5 opps, wrong article should have been on 'Disease tracker wants to rewrite Mexican history'. My bad |
| Posted by: Procopius2K 2006-10-15 16:45 |
| #4 The siege of the Aztec capital by Cortez was a classical European operation. One only has to look at what happened in cities in Europe which experienced such sieges to understand the consequence. It should have not been surprising that in such an environment, one the Aztecs had very little if any experience with. Heck, as New Orleans showed, something even we don’t have. Reduced food and water, contamination, dead bodies needing removal or become sources of disease, it all adds up to a very devastating point where, compounded by the stress brought on by the siege, a dormant pathology can take hold and ravage an unprepared population. This is not something new except in the minds of those who hold some halcyon attribute concerning the ‘noble savage’. |
| Posted by: Procopius2K 2006-10-15 16:44 |
| #3 Everything after that is |
| Posted by: anon 2006-10-15 12:54 |
| #2 "says Bob Woodward" Everything after that is |
| Posted by: Barbara Skolaut 2006-10-15 12:50 |
| #1 Nice hit job, but it's all glittering generalities. I learned to identify this crap in the 7th grade. Aw, there, pooty pooty, Donny hurt your feelings? |
| Posted by: Perfesser 2006-10-15 12:13 |