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Talk About Drumbeats


From Think Progress:

“I really believe that we need a new secretary of defense because Secretary Rumsfeld carries way too much baggage with him. … Specifically, I feel he has micromanaged the generals who are leading our forces there,” said retired Maj. Gen. Charles Swannack, former commander of the 82nd Airborne Division.

I would have liked it to have happened earlier, but I'll take it.

You know the song, "Na-na na-na, hey-hey-hey, good-bye!"


Sean Paul Kelley April 13, 2006 - 4:04pm
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More Retired Generals Call for Rumsfeld's Resignation

Washington | David S. Cloud & Eric Schmitt | April 14

NYT — The widening circle of retired generals who have stepped forward to call for Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld's resignation is shaping up as an unusual outcry that could pose a significant challenge to Mr. Rumsfeld's leadership, current and former generals said on Thursday.

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 Mr. Rumsfeld's ouster. Also Thursday, another retired Army general, Maj. Gen. John Riggs, joined in the fray.

Mark April 14, 2006 - 8:48am
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