Ray Mc govern: "Stay The Crooked Course"

[dbeach]

Staying the course in VN cost: 58,202 lives:,over 225,000 WIA;
over 2000 Pows MIA s; thousands suicides: drug related deaths; thousands Agewnt orange;thousands of PTSD;thosands of divorces

BUT the montra remained the same STAY THE COURSE

STAY THE COURSE= MORE PROFITS FOR WAR MONGERS..MORE SUFFERING FOR THE COMMONERS


http://www.tompaine.com/articles/20050628/stay_the_crooked_course.php
Stay The Crooked Course
Ray McGovern
June 28, 2005

"Forget the documentary evidence (the Downing Street minutes) that the war on Iraq was fraudulent from the outset. Forget that the United States and Britain started pulverizing Iraq with stepped-up bombing months before the president or prime minister breathed a word to Congress or Parliament. Forget that Defense Secretary Rumsfeld and his merry men—his co-opted military brass—have no clue regarding what U.S. forces are up against in Iraq. Get ready to hear President George W. Bush tell us this evening that we “have to stay the course.”

As was the case in Vietnam, the Iraq war is being run by civilians innocent of military experience and disdainful of advice from the colonels and majors who know which end is up. Aping the president’s practice of surrounding himself with sycophants, Rumsfeld has promoted a coterie of yes-men to top military ranks—men who “kiss up and kick down,” in the words of former Assistant Secretary of State Carl Ford, describing U.N. nominee John Bolton’s modus operandi at the State Department.

A General Speaks The Truth

More outspoken still has been Lt. Gen. William Odom (U.S. Army, ret.), the most respected senior intelligence officer still willing to speak out on strategic and intelligence issues. Unfortunately, you would have to understand German to know what he thinks of “staying the course” in Iraq, because U.S. media are not going to run his remarks.

Here is my translation of what Gen. Odom said last September on German TV’s Panorama program :

When the president says he is staying the course, that makes me really afraid. For a leader has to know when to change course. Hitler did not change his course: rather he kept sending more and more troops to Stalingrad and they suffered more and more casualties.

When the president says he is staying the course it reminds me of the man who has just jumped from the Empire State Building. Halfway down he says, ‘I am still on course.’ Well, I would not want to be on course with a man who will lie splattered in the street. I would like to be someone who could change the course...

Our invasion of Iraq has made it a homeland for Al Qaeda and other terrorist groups. Indeed, I believe that it was the very first time that many Iraqis became terrorists. Before we invaded, they had no idea of terrorism."

[tuvor]

1. There was a crooked man...

There was a crooked man,

And he walked a crooked mile.

He found a crooked sixpence,

Beside a crooked stile;

He bought a crooked cat,

Which caught a crooked mouse,

And they all lived together,

In a little crooked house.

[dbeach]

2. Givin away your age..was thinking the same thought

funny how all the crooks showed up in the bush admin

TOO BAD that the LAW Enforement agencies would prefer to target speeders on the long Holiday weekend