A general that supports Don Rumsfeld!!!!

I heard this story today on Hannity. No suprise I cant find anything on it from the media.

Michael "Rifle" Delong, number two man at CENTCOM, Tommy Franks 2nd in command, supports Rumsfeld. I dont really think it matters who supports and who does not support Rumsfeld. I just thought another point of view was only fair since others here think it matters that some retired 3 star that wasnt even active when the war started doesnt support him.

Remeber, Rifle was second in command at Centcom DURING THE OPERATION. I think his opinion holds a little more weight.

http://www.calgunlaws.com/modules.php?name=Amazon&asin=0895260204

I also highly recomend his book "Inside Centcom"

I will be reading it next week. But I warn you......it will be full of first hand knowledge of the Afghan and Iraq wars, rather than mainstream, oped nonsense.

Liberals probably wont like hearing the truth.....things like

* The likely hiding place of Saddam's weapons of mass destruction-yes, they do exist

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and

* Al-Qaeda and Saddam: why CentCom believes they are co-conspirators

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dont fit your agenda, but I will believe men with honor like Tommy Franks and Michael Delong any day over a mainstream media with a political axe to grind.

ProudAmerican said:

I heard this story today on Hannity. No suprise I cant find anything on it from the media.

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How about what one of the generals who now has spoken against Rumsfield and the war said before the war.

>>Retired Gen. Anthony Zinni, who now complains that President Bush cherry-picked pre-war Iraq weapons intelligence and misled the country into going to war, warned six years ago that Saddam Hussein's WMD program was the biggest threat to U.S. interests in the Middle East.

"Iraq remains the most significant near-term threat to U.S. interests in the Arabian Gulf region," Zinni told Congress on March 15, 2000.

"Despite claims that WMD efforts have ceased," the general-turned-war critic said, "Iraq probably is continuing clandestine nuclear research, retains stocks of chemical and biological munitions, and is concealing extended-range SCUD missiles, possibly equipped with CBW [chem-bio-weapons] payloads," Zinni said, in quotes unearthed Friday by the American Thinker blog.<<

It was General Zinni who began the campaign against Rumsfield two weeks ago.

But before the war here is what he had to say

>>"What bothered me," Zinni told host Tim Russert, "[was that] I was hearing a depiction of the intelligence that didn’t fit what I knew. There was no solid proof, that I ever saw, that Saddam had WMD.

>>"Now, I’d be the first to say we had to assume he had WMD left over that wasn’t accounted for: artillery rounds, chemical rounds, a SCUD missile or two. But these things, over time, degrade. These things did not present operational or strategic level threats at best."<< He told Tim Russert.


But he had a different tune when testifying before congress about going to war.

>>"Even if Baghdad reversed its course and surrendered all WMD capabilities, it retains the scientific, technical, and industrial infrastructure to replace agents and munitions within weeks or months."<<

And what did he have to say about Saddam and AlQaeda and other terrorist?

>>"Extremists like Osama bin Laden and his World Islamic Front network benefit from the global nature of communications that permits recruitment, fund raising, and direct connections to sub-elements worldwide . . .

"Terrorists are seeking more lethal weaponry to include: chemical, biological, radiological, and even nuclear components with which to perpetrate more sensational attacks . . . Three [Iraq, Iran and Sudan] of the seven recognized state-sponsors of terrorism are within this potentially volatile area, and the Taliban regime in Afghanistan has been sanctioned by the UN Security Council for its harboring of Osama bin Laden."<

Why is he now trying to undermine our efforts?

http://newsmax.com/archives/ic/2006/4/15/115347.shtml?s=ic

http://www.iht.com/articles/2006/04/16/news/policy.php

a few more folks support Rumsfeld.

Another Rumsfeld supporter...

ProudAmerican said:

http://www.iht.com/articles/2006/04/16/news/policy.php

a few more folks support Rumsfeld.

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Gen. Delong too who totally debunked the 6 generals, 3 of whom I understand have back down off thier previous statements.

3 of whom I understand have back down off thier previous statements.

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You think the SwiftBoat Vets might of got to them?

How many of the diseenting generals have books deals? Follow the money, people.

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