I have to leave and apologize for the brief diary but wanted to point this out: Gen. Richard Myers, who may have more stones than usual because he's stepping down, expresses essentially the same message as Cindy Sheehan, and makes it very clear (in his semi-literate way) that he is talking to the Commander in Chief. These words could have come out of Cindy's mouth, almost. I don't mean to play tinfoil hat games, but Bush is not making himself very popular with the military, or anybody, with his Runaway Bride imitation.
The top US military officer has faulted US political leaders for failing to get across what he portrayed as the huge stakes in Iraq and elsewhere in the US-declared global war on terrorism.
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"The most important thing we have...right now in this kind of conflict is our will and our resolve," General Richard Myers, outgoing chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said at the Pentagon, adding the US public does not get the stakes.
"I think it's incumbent on the national leadership, writ large, to help communicate this to the American public," said General Myers, reporting on a 10-day, 18-base tour that included Iraq, Afghanistan and bases in Asia and Europe.
I doubt that Bush can do anything to Myers at this point. But this public callout has got to have the WH steaming. Heh. heh.
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