[Chancellor]

Quote by: Milton Bradley Rumsfeld claims he never heard any of these critiques when the Generals were still in active duty, and only hears it now that they have retired.

Is he stupid enough to think any of these generals would risk their careers (and possibly violate the Uniform Code of Military Justice) by criticising him while they were on active duty?

Am I the only one who thinks any official critique of Rummy was never going to reach him because he didn't want those criticisms to reach him?

Yes, probably. Do you really think that if an active duty general publicly criticised the Secretary of Defense that the Secretary would not have heard about it and had that general's head on a platter?

Thoe only reason he hears these things now is that Rumsfeld can't squelch the entire media like he could the Generals below him on active duty. I think Rumsfeld has proven he is not up the task of being a military commander, and that these critisisms are just, and correct.

I don't think that his capability as Secretary of Defense (which is a civilian position, not a military one) has anything to do with whether he could squelch the media. Further, since the media cannot be trusted with anything, I wouldn't put any more value on what the media says than on a used piece of toilet paper.

The fact that you are not hearing this until now speaks of the standard operating proceedure of this administration, and Rumsfeld fits right in this bunch of crooks. They doesn't want anybody looking over their shoulder, or critiquing their work, and for good reasons, they're crooks with an agenda, and thery can't have people finding out what that might be.

You REALLY don't know the military, do you? A person on active duty doesn't have the freedom to criticize his superiors the way civilians do.