Let's just start calling them Republican generals. That's what they are, so call it as we see it.

"Death before being dishonored any more." - Col. Ted Westhusing

Ewwwwwww! I liked the comment on the Republican Guard. But I thought they were protecting ALL of 'Merica?

that since his fucking "surge" has kicked off, more than twice as many Yank military have died than Iraqi soldiers in the Baghdad operations...funny, that. Does the good general have any trenchant comments to address this statistic? Or, how about the egregious Sen. Lindsay Graham, who wants "six months" - or, one "friedman" - to pass before judgment is rendered on this latest rescue attempt at a discredited and failed policy? BOLLOCKS to the lot of them...my god, two weeks in the Oregon wine district (Yamhill - fantastic Pinot Noir) and come back to the same old bullshit. And that blathering cockbite of a "president" is still hawking the same old wares..."there you go again...", to paraphrase one of His Excellecy's fav predecessors. Sod the bugger, call out the sappers and rid the world of this cancer.

...two reasons:

1) Is this type of consultation really without historical parallel? I don't know whether it is or not, but I do know that one shouldn't call for the guy's head without knowing that, and I haven't seen anything that indicates to me that this is definitively known, rather than assumed. I find the whole notion of a general addressing anybody's caucus to be heebie-jeebie inducing in the extreme, but better make sure that it ain't how business is customarily done without folks previously taking notice.

2) Even if this was beyond the pale, one may want to give the leash a real strong jerk so it doesn't happen again and take it (least until renewal time). You've finally got a high command that has some sort of understanding of what they're up against, combined with a political environment that says this is the last throw of the dice. This guy may well be so central that you're over the barrel if you don't want to see the regional security situation get far worse. Would that it wasn't, but the politically acceptable general officer talent pool don't seem that deep.

"Political Islam is a dream or a nightmare, but not a sociological reality." - Olivier Roy, Globalized Islam: The Search for a New Ummah

that the military is voted out? We can be rid of them?