Raw story is running a preview of a tommorrow morning NYT article -
http://www.rawstory.com/...
saying there is now an organized effort among retired General's to force the resignation of Donald Rumsfeld. Can anyone cite a parallel in American history? I can't think of one.
There are increasing indications that the repeated calls by retired generals for Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld to resign are being organized to maximize pressure on him to step down, the New York Times is set to report Friday,
The list seems to grow daily of Generals calling foul.
This comes in the wake of a fifth general calling on Thursday for Rumsfeld's resignation, joining a widening group of influential retired generals in what the Times calls a significant rebellion against the Pentagon's civilian leadership.
Maybe we have fighting Dems of different stripe?
Maj. Gen. Charles H. Swannack Jr., who led troops on the ground in Iraq as recently as 2004 as the commander of the Army's 82nd Airborne Division, on Thursday became the fifth retired senior general in recent days to call publicly for Rumsfeld's ouster. "We need to continue to fight the global war on terror and keep it off our shores," Swannack said in a telephone interview. "But I do not believe Secretary Rumsfeld is the right person to fight that war based on his absolute failures in managing the war against Saddam in Iraq."
Sorry for the short diary but this is big stuff. It puts the McArthur story during Korea to shame.
Might we have Fighting Dems of a different stripe?