[Vision2020] Army Officer Accuses His Generals of Iraq Failures

[Donovan Arnold]

Sunil,
   
  You wrote:
   
  "Poor Donovan, wants to be Eugene and ends up being Joseph."
   
  Clearly, I am neither. If I was McCarthy you would praising me for my destruction of good leaders. If I were Joseph you would be at my feet. 
   
  Don't blame others for not telling the truth when it cannot be uttered from your own lips. 
   
  You have great courtroom tactics, Sunil. But I assure you, you have answered the question for those of us that wanted to know. 
   
  Best,
   
  Donovan
   
   
   
   
  Sunil Ramalingam <sunilramalingam at hotmail.com> wrote:
  Moscow's McCarthy continues to display his love of freedom by imposing 
loyalty tests.

Poor Donovan, wants to be Eugene and ends up being Joseph.

Sunil


>From: Donovan Arnold 
>To: Sunil Ramalingam , vision2020 at moscow.com
>Subject: Re: [Vision2020] Army Officer Accuses His Generals of Iraq 
>Failures
>Date: Sat, 28 Apr 2007 11:32:36 -0700 (PDT)
>
>Sunil,
>
> You wrote:
>
> "Bush has said that the military has been sent all the troops they 
>requested.
>Why didn't the generals request more troops from the beginning? Why didn't
>they admit how poorly things were going and put it back in the lap of the
>administration?"
>
>
> First, the Generals did ask for more troops and did give honest 
>appraisals of the situation, they just did not publish that information for 
>you and the enemy to see in the Washington Post and New York Times.
>
> Second, there were no more troops to be had.
>
> Third, more troops wouldn't solve the problem, it would just make the 
>problem larger. The problem was the political objective, not military 
>incompetence. They have guns not magic wands. This was Bush's blunder, not 
>the officers, soldiers, or generals over there.
>
> Fourth, it is UNACCEPTABLE for an officer to be going to the AP and 
>personally attack his commanding officers. There are proper ways of going 
>about filing a complaint about a misbehaving or incompetent commanding 
>officer. What this guy did was wrong and dangerous.
>
> Finally, we are still waiting for you to say, "I love my country, the 
>United States of America."
>
>
> Best,
>
> Donovan
>
>Sunil Ramalingam wrote:
> Donovan,
>
>On the one hand I don't disagree that the administration 'screwed this war
>up;' having said that, I think wars like this are always going to end in
>failure. But since the war began, up until he announced the 'surge,' Bush
>has said that the military has been sent all the troops they requested.
>Why didn't the generals request more troops from the beginning? Why didn't
>they admit how poorly things were going and put it back in the lap of the
>administration?
>
>It seems to me that generals saw the treatment Gen. Shinseki received after
>saying that four to five hundred thousand troops would be needed for the
>war, and they didn't want the same treatment for themselves. That's their
>fault, isn't it?
>
>Sunil
>
> >From: Donovan Arnold
> >To: Tom Hansen , thansen at moscow.com,
> >vision2020 at moscow.com
> >Subject: Re: [Vision2020] Army Officer Accuses His Generals of Iraq
> >Failures
> >Date: Sat, 28 Apr 2007 10:38:06 -0700 (PDT)
> >
> >Complaining is one thing. But going to the media and to undermine the
> >command structure of the military during an actual military action is not 
>a
> >right.
> >
> > And I don't believe him anyway. I think it is the administration's fault
> >for screwing this war up, not the generals.
> >
> > Best,
> >
> >Donovan
> >
>
>
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