WTF Is It Now?!?

Powell: Bush the 'Commander Guy'? Don't make me laugh
Awol McFuckwit did not listen to his 'generals on the ground.' In fact, he proceeded with the "surge" despite all their warnings.

“The President received advice from his military advisers last fall that said do not send more troops.," former Secretary of State Colin Powell told Tim Russert on Sunday. “Gen. Abizaid went before the Congress and said he had consulted with all his division commanders in Iraq and all of the senior commanders, and none of them wanted to send additional troops. They thought the strategy at that point should be to put the burden on the Iraqis to resolve what I call a civil war.”

Abizaid’s position was supported, too, by the Joint Chiefs of Staff and last fall even by Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, who sent the President a memo on Nov. 6 suggesting a redeployment of U.S. forces away from police functions, echoing earlier recommendations of Democratic Rep. John Murtha.

Two days after that memo, Bush fired Rumsfeld. As White House neocons embraced the notion of a troop escalation, Bush began purging dissident military officers. Bush removed the two top generals overseeing the Iraq war, Abizaid and George Casey – and last week extended the purge to Joint Chiefs chairman, Gen. Peter Pace, who also had offended the neocons by resisting pressure for military action against Iran.

"Nyurrrrm! Pow pow pow!"
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