Senate Armed Services Committee Hearing (today)

[Solly Mack]

Tuesday, June 19, 2007

UNITED STATES SENATE COMMITTEE ON ARMED SERVICES

To consider the nomination of the Honorable Preston M. Geren, to be Secretary of the Army.

I've been watching it on the Pentagon Channel.

LOTS of questions about the Taguba article. No good answers from Preston M. Geren.


My opinion? This man should NOT be confirmed.

He's another "Yes" man and will continue to pretend Abu Ghraib was a "few bad apples" ...


I don't know if the hearing is showing on other channels. If anyone does know, please post.
The Pentagon Channel cut away from the hearing.

[blondeatlast]

1. Kick for those of us who can't watch. Thanks. nt

[Solly Mack]

2. I hope someone was able to watch more of it

and can tell us more

the pentagon channel cut away from the hearing

[blondeatlast]

3. Why am I so not surprised? Sigh... nt

[Solly Mack]

4. Comments on Iraq by Geren

Incoming Army chief faces uphill battle

- "We've got a good strategy, a good approach, and I believe that we will continue to make progress and ultimately achieve our goal of a stable Iraq," he said. "I don't try to guess about a time horizon. ... We've got a tough fight on our hands."


"You cannot fight an extended war without public support, but public support changes," he said. "You can look at any war in our history, and there were times when it was divisive and deeply unpopular."


"The Iraq situation will require a long-term commitment," Mr. Geren agreed two days later in a far-reaching hourlong interview. "What that's going to look like, I don't think anybody could tell you today, and I wouldn't try to predict how popular that would be."

Mr. Geren was seated in a wingback chair at his Pentagon office – on the side rebuilt after a hijacked plane slammed into it on Sept. 11, 2001. He'd started work just one week earlier as an aide to Donald Rumsfeld, then the defense secretary. -