Saturday, September 09, 2006
Bombshell
Brigadier General Mark Scheid, retiring in three weeks, recently said in an interview with the Newport News that Secretary of Defense Rumsfeld “forbade military strategists to develop plans for securing a post-war Iraq.”
Snap! You have got to be kidding me. This is a bombshell.
Scheid was promoted to be chief of logistics war plans at the Central Command on September 10th, 2001. Central Command oversees war plans for the Middle East.
Scheid said, during the planning for Iraq, that planners wanted a plan for occupation. “I remember the secretary of defense saying that he would fire the next person that said that,” Scheid said. “He said we will not do that because the American public will not back us if they think we are going over there for a long war.”
This is incredible, and I can’t help but wonder if and when the GOP smear machine will kick into gear to silence the general. Either this guy is completely making this up or the Secretary of Defense is and was completely unfit for his position.
To help cover up the mess Iraq has become, US military officials are working hard to reduce the number of civilians who die in fighting every month in Iraq—by changing the way they count.
A good article pointed out by Sirota in his letter to Nancy Pelosi about the DLC, and another article Sirota wrote recently fulminating about the fearmongering and crass advertisements of the GOP.
John Kerry gives a stirring speech in Boston.
# posted by BitterHarvest @ 9:41 PM 
