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General John Batiste, Dissenting
Topic Started: May 13 2007, 05:17 AM (74 Views)
QuirtEvans
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“Mr. President, you did not listen,” General Batiste says in new television advertisements being broadcast in Republican Congressional districts as part of a $500,000 campaign financed by VoteVets.org. “You continue to pursue a failed strategy that is breaking our great Army and Marine Corps. I left the Army in protest in order to speak out. Mr. President, you have placed our nation in peril. Our only hope is that Congress will act now to protect our fighting men and women.”

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“I am outraged, as are the majority of Americans,” General Batiste said over sandwiches in a blue-collar diner here. “I am a lifelong Republican. But it is past time for change.”



http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/13/us/13generals.html
It would be unwise to underestimate what large groups of ill-informed people acting together can achieve. -- John D'Oh, January 14, 2010.
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What would General Batiste have us do? Does he advocate pulling out of Iraq? The article does not say. The only specifics it gives are criticisms as to how the war has been conducted up to now. They are, quite possibly, valid criticisms but what does he suggest we do going forward? It seems the New York Times is happy with finding a Republican ex-General who is critical of the Administration and feels no journalistic obligation to find out and explicate what the man has in mind for conducting the war in Iraq and the wider war against terrorism. I, for one, would be interested in his views but the NYT doesn't seem to think that is important.
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May 13 2007, 08:34 AM
What would General Batiste have us do? Does he advocate pulling out of Iraq? The article does not say. The only specifics it gives are criticisms as to how the war has been conducted up to now. They are, quite possibly, valid criticisms but what does he suggest we do going forward? It seems the New York Times is happy with finding a Republican ex-General who is critical of the Administration and feels no journalistic obligation to find out and explicate what the man has in mind for conducting the war in Iraq and the wider war against terrorism. I, for one, would be interested in his views but the NYT doesn't seem to think that is important.

I'd be interested, too. Smart guy. Was "boots on the ground".

Petraeus is smart, too, but he may be filtering what he says in a way that Batiste is not.
It would be unwise to underestimate what large groups of ill-informed people acting together can achieve. -- John D'Oh, January 14, 2010.
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