Impeach Bush. Impeach Cheney. And then get rid of all the “brown-nose” generals who have placed fealty to the insane Bush administration over their oath to protect and defend our Constitution. All of them should have stood firmly beside Gen. Shinseki and threatened to resign enmasse if enough troops weren’t sent to secure Iraq. Plus, when Gen. Jay Garner (the first head of the Coalition Provisional Authority) was told to take a hike, so Paul Bremer (former managing director of Kissinger and Associates) could replace him and start the neo-con’s insane de-Baathification policy (which created an immediate security vacuum, fomented an instant insurgency and was a major gift given to the Iranians by Bush), the general’s should have told Rumsfeld and Bush, NO!, we’ll quit before allowing something so stupid to happen.

When I was in the military, we called these type of people (generals or enlisted) brown-nosers, sucking up to higher-ups, blindly following orders, without a peep. I can understand this from enlisted personnel, but an officer has the ability to resign their commission in protest if they decide that someone higher-up is issuing an illegal (let alone an insane) order.

Unfortunately, in the case of the Iraq fiasco, Bush, Cheney and Rumsfeld found enough “brown-noser” generals to do their’s, and the Iraqi exiles’, bidding. In other words, the insanity of the Bush administration’s policies in Iraq didn’t happen in a vacuum. Democrats in Congress will have plenty of people to call, including from military ranks, to get to the bottom of the deadly Iraq fiasco.

But I still feel that Democrats should immediately make clear to the Bush administration that they will not tolerate Bush launching an attack on IRAN without first getting constitutional authorization from Congress. This should be addressed by Democrats no later than the first of next week…just in case Bush and Cheney are thinking of doing something even more stupid than Iraq.

Oklahoma kiddo @ 76

“The White House dumps another stinking body over the side of its sinking Iraq ship” (Arianna today)

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/…..37619.html

“What I want to hear from you is how we’re going to win, not how we’re going to leave,” the Times quotes Bush as warning his military commanders during a recent classified briefing at the Pentagon. I guess that’s what the president meant when he claimed “I believe that you empower your generals to make the decisions…”

I think Bush needs to put that Proust back on the shelf and pick up a history book.

Over the break between terms, I re-read William Shirer’s Rise and Fall of the Third Reich. I realize that I lose the debate by being first to invoke Nazi Germany, but there are some scary parallels…

BC

PS.

Happy New Year, everyone.

…handling of the war… (sheesh)

de nada … we knew what you meant

Heya gang. Why, may I ask, are we being treated to yet another round of Britney Spears infotainment today?

Here, I’ll take a shot at that one:

Because I’d rather look at Britney and her trailer-park behavior (which has no real effect on my life) than endure another dose of Boosh’s speechifying, strategerizing, and decidering (which has severely degraded the quality of my life, destroyed our national prestige and credibility for decades to come, and generally done immeasurable harm not only to our country and Constitution, but much of the rest of the world as well)???