<DIV><B><I>Sunil,</I></B></DIV> <DIV><B><I></I></B> </DIV> <DIV><B><I>You wrote:</I></B></DIV> <DIV><STRONG><EM></EM></STRONG> </DIV> <DIV>"Poor Donovan, wants to be Eugene and ends up being Joseph."</DIV> <DIV><B><I></I></B> </DIV> <DIV><B><I>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. </I></B></DIV> <DIV><STRONG><EM></EM></STRONG> </DIV> <DIV><STRONG><EM>Don't blame others for not telling the truth when it cannot be uttered from your own lips. </EM></STRONG></DIV> <DIV><STRONG><EM></EM></STRONG> </DIV> <DIV><STRONG><EM>You have great courtroom tactics, Sunil. But I assure you, you have answered the question for those of us that wanted to know. </EM></STRONG></DIV> <DIV><STRONG><EM></EM></STRONG> </DIV> <DIV><STRONG><EM>Best,</EM></STRONG></DIV> <DIV><STRONG><EM></EM></STRONG> </DIV>
<DIV><STRONG><EM>Donovan</EM></STRONG></DIV> <DIV><STRONG><EM></EM></STRONG> </DIV> <DIV><STRONG><EM></EM></STRONG> </DIV> <DIV><STRONG><EM></EM></STRONG> </DIV> <DIV><B><I></I></B> </DIV> <DIV><B><I>Sunil Ramalingam <sunilramalingam@hotmail.com></I></B> wrote:</DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE class=replbq style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #1010ff 2px solid">Moscow's McCarthy continues to display his love of freedom by imposing <BR>loyalty tests.<BR><BR>Poor Donovan, wants to be Eugene and ends up being Joseph.<BR><BR>Sunil<BR><BR><BR>>From: Donovan Arnold <DONOVANJARNOLD2005@YAHOO.COM><BR>>To: Sunil Ramalingam <SUNILRAMALINGAM@HOTMAIL.COM>, vision2020@moscow.com<BR>>Subject: Re: [Vision2020] Army Officer Accuses His Generals of Iraq <BR>>Failures<BR>>Date: Sat, 28 Apr 2007 11:32:36 -0700 (PDT)<BR>><BR>>Sunil,<BR>><BR>> You wrote:<BR>><BR>> "Bush has said that the military has been sent all the troops
they <BR>>requested.<BR>>Why didn't the generals request more troops from the beginning? Why didn't<BR>>they admit how poorly things were going and put it back in the lap of the<BR>>administration?"<BR>><BR>><BR>> First, the Generals did ask for more troops and did give honest <BR>>appraisals of the situation, they just did not publish that information for <BR>>you and the enemy to see in the Washington Post and New York Times.<BR>><BR>> Second, there were no more troops to be had.<BR>><BR>> Third, more troops wouldn't solve the problem, it would just make the <BR>>problem larger. The problem was the political objective, not military <BR>>incompetence. They have guns not magic wands. This was Bush's blunder, not <BR>>the officers, soldiers, or generals over there.<BR>><BR>> Fourth, it is UNACCEPTABLE for an officer to be going to the AP and <BR>>personally attack his commanding officers. There are proper ways of
going <BR>>about filing a complaint about a misbehaving or incompetent commanding <BR>>officer. What this guy did was wrong and dangerous.<BR>><BR>> Finally, we are still waiting for you to say, "I love my country, the <BR>>United States of America."<BR>><BR>><BR>> Best,<BR>><BR>> Donovan<BR>><BR>>Sunil Ramalingam <SUNILRAMALINGAM@HOTMAIL.COM>wrote:<BR>> Donovan,<BR>><BR>>On the one hand I don't disagree that the administration 'screwed this war<BR>>up;' having said that, I think wars like this are always going to end in<BR>>failure. But since the war began, up until he announced the 'surge,' Bush<BR>>has said that the military has been sent all the troops they requested.<BR>>Why didn't the generals request more troops from the beginning? Why didn't<BR>>they admit how poorly things were going and put it back in the lap of the<BR>>administration?<BR>><BR>>It seems to me that generals saw the treatment Gen.
Shinseki received after<BR>>saying that four to five hundred thousand troops would be needed for the<BR>>war, and they didn't want the same treatment for themselves. That's their<BR>>fault, isn't it?<BR>><BR>>Sunil<BR>><BR>> >From: Donovan Arnold<BR>> >To: Tom Hansen , thansen@moscow.com,<BR>> >vision2020@moscow.com<BR>> >Subject: Re: [Vision2020] Army Officer Accuses His Generals of Iraq<BR>> >Failures<BR>> >Date: Sat, 28 Apr 2007 10:38:06 -0700 (PDT)<BR>> ><BR>> >Complaining is one thing. But going to the media and to undermine the<BR>> >command structure of the military during an actual military action is not <BR>>a<BR>> >right.<BR>> ><BR>> > And I don't believe him anyway. I think it is the administration's fault<BR>> >for screwing this war up, not the generals.<BR>> ><BR>> > Best,<BR>> ><BR>> >Donovan<BR>>
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