8th AF Commander rebukes Hollywood

[Billy Preston]

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,125860,00.html

I haven't seen the Twinkee Moore's film, but I've met this General.

Thank you, Sir.


As commander of the 8th Air Force, I was present when President Bush
stopped to deliver a message to the American people at Barksdale
Air Force Base. Throughout my career, I have seen the best and the worst
of people under extreme pressure. President Bush arrived at Barksdale deeply
saddened and obviously concerned, but he was a man on a mission, courageous
and decisive. He was totally in command. I have kept relatively quiet about my
experiences with the president on 9/11, but I cannot sit back and allow
Hollywood and the media to rewrite history. I was there, and I consider myself
a good judge of leadership. We were fortunate that President Bush was our
commander in chief on 9/11.

[WalterM140]

>Barksdale deeply
>saddened and obviously concerned, but he was a man on a mission, courageous
>and decisive.

And dead wrong.

Walt

[Leslie Swartz]

. . . so you're still siding with Joe Wilson, Noam Chomsky, Dick
BenVeniste, and the Dixie Chicks?

For those whose battle cry is "The Truth Will Come Out!" remember- even
after the truth does begin to come out, there will always be those who
*choose* to side with the Forces of Darkness.

Interesting news tidbits recently about that PDB with specifics on OBL
planning to hijack some airliners and run other ops inside the U.S. Wonder
if they will ever be reported on CNN and ABC?

Oh yeah, it's not the PDB you probably assumed it was . . .

Steve Swartz




"WalterM140" > wrote in message
...
> >Barksdale deeply
> >saddened and obviously concerned, but he was a man on a mission,
courageous
> >and decisive.
>
> And dead wrong.
>
> Walt
>
>

[Billy Preston]

"Emmanuel Gustin" > wrote
>
> W. Bush isn't Dart Vader. He is just an appallingly incompetent
> leader.

This from a someone who is natually a born leader no doubt...

> The he first sent out his troops to fight or more or less justified war
> in Afghanistan,

More or less... What a Twinkee.

> but did a half-botched job in finishing the
> business there.

France should be able to pick up the slack then.

> There is a rule in strategy which could be called the law of
> mutual compensation of incompetence and numbers.

Thank you Professor!

[ArtKramr]

>Subject: Re: 8th AF Commander rebukes Hollywood
>From: "Emmanuel Gustin"
>Date: 7/18/2004 1:01 PM Pacific Standard Time
>Message-id: >
>
>"Leslie Swartz" > wrote in message
...
>
>> . . . so you're still siding with Joe Wilson, Noam Chomsky, Dick
>> BenVeniste, and the Dixie Chicks?
>>
>> For those whose battle cry is "The Truth Will Come Out!" remember- even
>> after the truth does begin to come out, there will always be those who
>> *choose* to side with the Forces of Darkness.
>
>This kind of drivel is, alas, the predictable consequence of
>the efforts of Moore and other conspiracy theorists. I see
>a certain poetic justice in the neo-conservatives being
>attacked by people who have a little respect for truth, and
>as little regard for reality, as they themselves. However,
>people throwing bricks to each other from the heights of
>cloud-cuckoo land doesn't really help.
>
>Despite Moore's and efforts to portray him as such, George
>W. Bush isn't Dart Vader. He is just an appallingly incompetent
>leader. He started by ignoring the problem, then when disaster
>struck he burst out in flurry of misguided activity, calculated
>more to bring fear to his own people than to protect them. The
>he first sent out his troops to fight or more or less justified war
>in Afghanistan, but did a half-botched job in finishing the
>business there. Afterwards he insisted on sending his forces
>towards a war in Iraq, which he chose to fight despite horribly
>bad intelligence, a failure of the political preparation, a total
>absence of serious planning for the post-conquest phase, and
>a shortage of troops to get the work done. After a long series
>of disasters he decided to shift to problem onto someone else's
>shoulders, but in typical style he couldn't bring himself to really
>relinquish the power in Iraq, nor to revise his policies.
>
>At the end several years of effort, he has managed to get
>his anti-terrorist policies condemned by his Middle-East
>specialists, a host of retired generals, most of America's
>allies, the media, the Pope and the Supreme Court, in no
>particular order. Terrorism is increasing; the power of the
>USA is reaching its limit, with the Army forced to shift
>troops from one crisis area to another to plug the gaps.
>Unflinchingly, he has shown himself incapable of admitting
>error, and actually wants to pursue this set of policies for
>four more years.
>
>There is a rule in strategy which could be called the law of
>mutual compensation of incompetence and numbers. It takes
>a highly competent war leader to win a battle against an superior
>enemy, but a less competent war leader may see his faults
>compensated by numerical superiority. The level of George
>W. Bush' incompetence is such that it may actually outweigh
>the overwhelming superiority in military strength, economic
>power, and democratic credibility of the world's only remaining
>superpower. The "war on terror" is currently being won by the
>terrorists; never have they been so active and have they had
>such impact on global politics. A recovery is still possible,
>but if this madness goes on, large parts of the World may have
>to be conceded to the forces of islamitic radicalism.
>
>--
>Emmanuel Gustin


History has shown that there is no plan, no matter how brilliant that Bush
can't screw up. But he has been successful at deluding at least half the
American people until now. It will all change in November


Arthur Kramer
344th BG 494th BS
England, France, Belgium, Holland, Germany
Visit my WW II B-26 website at:
http://www.coastcomp.com/artkramer

[Billy Preston]

"ArtKramr" > wrote
>
> It will all change in November

Yea, Moore will explode from too many Twinkee's...