OpEdNews - Article: GENERALS REVOLT WHILE BUSH GOES AWOL

Congress is the only mechanism we have to fill this vacuum in command judgment .. The challenge we face today, is not how to win in Iraq; it is how to recover from a strategic mistake ~ invading Iraq in the first place : former NSA director Gen. William E. Odom (U.S. Army retired)

And there you have it, the generals and commanders are tired of being used as the excuse for Bush's refusal to face the reality of his Iraq fiasco.

General Odom says Bush has gone AWOL ~ which is typical for this moral coward who went AWOL his last year in the Air Force reserve for two reasons ~ he couldn't handle the flying and he knew he wouldn't be able to pass a drug test.

Retired Major General John Batiste also takes President Bush on directly, when Bush rationalizes that he's just "listening to commanders on the ground" in Iraq.

Batiste refused to be Bush's foil for a deeply flawed and failed policy and forceably responded " Mr. President, You did not listen "

30 Second Video: http://snipurl.com/1k3u8

The Generals know its time to leave, most of Americans know it's time to leave and the vast majority of Iraqis want us to leave ~ so let's end our co-dependent relationship with this incompetent and oblivious cheerleader President who long ago sold his soul and will do anything to avoid facing and acknowledging failure.

Allen L Roland

http://blogs.salon.com/0002255/2007/05/11.html

BUSH HAS GONE AWOL

By General William Odom

Common Dreams

April 28, 2007

http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/04/28/820/

The following is a transcript of the Democratic Radio Address delivered by Lieutenant General William E. Odom, U.S. Army (Ret.) on Saturday April 28, 2007:

"Good morning, this is Lieutenant General William E. Odom, U.S. Army, retired.

"I am not now nor have I ever been a Democrat or a Republican. Thus, I do not speak for the Democratic Party. I speak for myself, as a non-partisan retired military officer who is a former Director of the National Security Agency. I do so because Nancy Pelosi, the Speaker of the House of Representatives, asked me.

"In principle, I do not favor Congressional involvement in the execution of U.S. foreign and military policy. I have seen its perverse effects in many cases. The conflict in Iraq is different.

Over the past couple of years, the President has let it proceed on automatic pilot, making no corrections in the face of accumulating evidence that his strategy is failing and cannot be rescued.

"Thus, he lets the United States fly further and further into trouble, squandering its influence, money, and blood, facilitating the gains of our enemies. The Congress is the only mechanism we have to fill this vacuum in command judgment.

"To put this in a simple army metaphor, the Commander-in-Chief seems to have gone AWOL, that is 'absent without leave.' He neither acts nor talks as though he is in charge. Rather, he engages in tit-for-tat games.

"Some in Congress on both sides of the aisle have responded with their own tits-for-tats. These kinds of games, however, are no longer helpful, much less amusing. They merely reflect the absence of effective leadership in a crisis. And we are in a crisis.

"Most Americans suspect that something is fundamentally wrong with the President's management of the conflict in Iraq. And they are right.

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