Remember, just a couple of days ago, Wesley Clark slammed Joe Lieberman as a “chickenhawk”:
Clark took further aim at Lieberman: “Only someone who never wore the uniform or thought seriously about national security would make threats at this point.”
Lieberman got military deferments during the Vietnam era because first he was in college and was later married with children.
Comes Harry Reid:
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid called Marine Gen. Peter Pace, the outgoing chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, “incompetent” during an interview Tuesday with a group of liberal bloggers, a comment that was never reported.
Reid made similar disparaging remarks about Army Gen. David Petraeus, the top U.S. commander in Iraq, said several sources familiar with the interview.
This is but the latest example of how Reid, under pressure from liberal activists to do more to stop the war, is going on the attack against President Bush and his military leaders in anticipation of a September showdown to end U.S. involvement in Iraq, according to Democratic senators and aides.
Reid, who was bashed by Republicans for suggesting earlier this year that the Iraq war was “lost,” is lashing out at top commanders while putting the finishing touches on a plan to force a series of votes on Iraq designed exclusively to make Republicans up for reelection in 2008 go on record in favor of continuing an unpopular war.
Will Wesley Clark chime in indignantly in support of his fellow flag officers, and reprimand Reid sharply for his chickenhawking ways? Of course he won’t…all the more so because Reid’s remarks were made to a “group of liberal bloggers”.
h/t Glenn Reynolds
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Update 2: Bob Geiger:
Here’s exactly what Reid said:
“I guess the president, uh, he’s gotten rid of Pace because he could not get him confirmed here in the Senate… Pace is also a yes-man for the president and I told him to his face, I laid it out to him last time he came to see me, I told him what an incompetent man I thought he was.”
So, did Reid utter the word “incompetent” in the same sentence with General Pace’s name on the conference call? Yes, he did.
It sounds like someone needs to contact General Pace and see if this little vignette actually happened. Seems it would also be nice to know what Reid said about General Petraeus, and whether or not it was said to his face as well.
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So this is about whether or not Wesley Clark admonishes Harry Reid and nothing about the fact that Lieberman and others Zionist Jews and moneybags who run everything are attempting to drag us into Iran and spill more Christian and Muslim blood in order to utterly destroy the middle east and make Israel the only power there.
Well by God by all means Wes Clark should of course admonish harry reid so everything will be copecetic once again. Lets keep the focus geniuses
“Lieberman and others Zionist Jews?” Antisemitic, much?
So you can relate to how annoyed I get when people make definitive (and wrong) statements about technical and scientific issues when they are not engineers or scientists…
;-)
Reid is wrong, by the way. From what I have observed, interference from the civilian side on decisions that should be entirely military is why the situation in Iraq is not better.
Wes Clark is not civilian. For us to buy that we would have to believe that the military command takes its orders from civilians and the only civi they take orders from is G Bush.
The military told bush that we needed more troops and they were ignored.
Joe Tobacco, fyi, I am an American citizen and I am entitled to free speech and I am entitled to politically oppose jews if I choose. You are the other hand are not free to slander me. How would you like to make your anti-semitic accusations case in a court of law.
Lieberman should move to Israel since he ignores the best interets of the USA in favor of mucking Israel.
*giggles and rolls eyes*
Ya got yaself a live one , Joe.
Trolls! It’s not just for breakfast anymore!
;-)
thesouthtoday: You’re entitled to free speech, but you’re not entitled to spew your filth on my personal blog. Once more, and you’re banned.
thesouthtoday,
Wes Clark sure as hell is a civilian. He lost his pretty suit a long time ago, right after Clinton had to fire him. He could not have run for the White House unless he were a civilian.
He is a former soldier. Nothing more and definitely turned out to be something less.
BTW, thesouthtoday,
you are only assured your precious “freedom of speech” from government interference, you are not however assured “freedom of speech” everywhere you go.
if your antisemitic idiot statements are deleted from this blog, there’s not a damn thing you can do about it.
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The SouthToday,
Beyond your lack of understanding of our right to free speech, you’re also mistaken in your memory of the beginning of this war. You state: “The military told bush that we needed more troops and they were ignored.” Wrong. The president got various recommendations and then made a decision. That does not mean the few who recommended more troops were ignored. It does mean those who argued for fewer boots on ground made a more compelling case. It is easy now to conclude we should have had more folks in the sand, but if you consider the situation in early 2003 it was not so black and white. It was uniformly believed that Saddam had chemical and biological weapons and might use them once cornered. I personally didn’t want any boots in country until we knew the chemical threat was removed. I was content to fly our planes over and bomb them into submission. A lot more troops would have meant a lot more casualties. Many experts said we should have a minimal footprint in country and be mainly an advisor to the fledgling new government. Our biggest mistake was not too few troops but rather failure to completely shut down the borders. Keep the troublemakers from coming from Iran and Syria and Iraq would be in much better shape today.
What a hoot. You talk lightly about the fact that we have committed a holocaust against the people of Iraq and then you lecture me about being careful regarding the things I say about Jews. I’m glad you can’t force your values off on me.
Israel is at the very center of all of this and Zionist Jews infest the White House and I don’t give a crap if you ban me from this propaganda blog where the facts are not allowed as part of the discussion. Which of course is the only way you can make it look like we were defending ourselves from a two bit nation like iraq rather than committing a holocaust in order to take out israel’s enemies and steal their oil on behalf of finanical elites.
Zionist jews run this white house and they are the ones who planned our foreign policies and Bill Kristol is their philosophical leader not Pat Robertson.
Furthermore the truth is that none of the warmongers including the Zionist asshole Joe Lieberman risked their own jewish necks for this nation but they sure as hell stir up trouble as long as it is our Christian children’s and Muslims blood that is spilled and the United States is bandrupted in order to create a Jewish state which goes against our Consititution and the teachings of our God. Ban me. go ahead. You can’t handle the truth. What else is new.
Don’ t ban this idiot, Joe, he’s much too entertaining. You can’t fake this level of bigotry and stupidity.
Chris — I’m coming around to that conclusion myself.
thesouthtoday=asshat