U.S. generals call for Democratic takeover

[CatWoman]

Disgusted with the leadership of the Iraq war, two retired generals say the GOP must go. Plus: More than 100 current military personnel join a campaign to get the U.S. out of Iraq -- now.


Two retired senior Army generals, who served in Iraq and previously voted Republican, are now openly endorsing a Democratic takeover of Congress. The generals, and an active-duty senior military official, told Salon in separate interviews that they believe a Democratic victory will help reverse course from what they consider to be a disastrous Bush administration policy in Iraq. The two retired generals, Maj. Gen. John Batiste and retired Maj. Gen. Paul Eaton, first openly criticized the handling of the war last spring, when they called for the resignation of Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld.

"The best thing that can happen right now is for one or both of our houses to go Democratic so we can have some oversight," Batiste, who led the Army's 1st Infantry Division in Iraq in 2004 and 2005, told Salon. Batiste describes himself as a "lifelong Republican." But now, he said, "It is time for a change."

http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2006/10/25/generals/index_np.html

[Uncle Joe]

1. Kicked and recommended

:kick:

[Fleshdancer]

2. Holy crap

If this isn't a cry for help, I don't know what is.

I hate how removed we all are from the situation in Iraq. I read the articles and I see the footage on the news but it's hard to comprehend the level of hell Iraq must be. When two retired republican Generals and at least one active military official is hoping for a change in our leadership, you can safely make the assumption that things are worse then we are told...and that's almost too scary to process.

[wicket]

6. I'm shocked to see one of them is Batiste

Wow, this is HUGE :wow:

[CatWoman]

10. er, Wicket

that's "HUGH!!!!!!!!!!!!11"

:)

[wicket]

12. Bwahahahahaha

Nice call! :rofl:

[BOSSHOG]

3. I bet the Joint Chiefs of Staff hope for a democratic takeover

They of course would not say so in public but they no doubt long for a new direction in Iraq.

[Fleshdancer]

5. could you imagine having to work with Rumsfield for this long?

that alone should be considered a crime against humanity. :scared:

[Nikki Stone 1]

7. Boss, I love your sig line

:patriot:

[BOSSHOG]

8. Thanks teammate

Its a result of intellectual curiousity and the strong desire to maintain a free country.

[Nikki Stone 1]

17. I always knew you were one of them dangerous intellektials

:)

God willing we'll get to pull some of our freedoms out of the drain.

:patriot:

[spanone]

4. K & R

[KingFlorez]

9. Why do they hate America?

[goforit]

11. Does the military know they are allowed to stand up against tyrranny?

[Mme. Defarge]

15. Not only is it allowed,

it is a duty.

Declaration of Independence


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The Unanimous Declaration of the Thirteen United States of America
When, in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the laws of nature and of nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. That to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed. That whenever any form of government becomes destructive to these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their safety and happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shown that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such government, and to provide new guards for their future security. — Such has been the patient sufferance of these colonies; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former systems of government. The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute tyranny over these states. To prove this, let facts be submitted to a candid world.

http://www.constitution.org/usdeclar.htm

[wicket]

13. This needs a

:kick:

[Wilms]

14. K&R n/t

[opihimoimoi]

16. The Opi is back with #21

:kick:

Come, there is time for a walk on the beach....hear the waves and the pounding surf.....cold wine and a song or two....LOL