Thursday, April 13, 2006

Another General Joins Anti-Rummy Brigade

By Helen Kennedy
Daily News Staff Writer

"The extraordinary 'Revolt of the Generals' continued yesterday with a fourth high-ranking senior military leader calling for Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld's head."Retired two-star Maj. Gen. John Batiste, who commanded the Big Red One - the Army's 1st Infantry Division - in Iraq until November, said Rumsfeld must go for ignoring and intimidating career officers. ..."'I believe we need a fresh start in the Pentagon. We need a leader who understands teamwork, a leader who knows how to build teams, a leader that does it without intimidation,' said Batiste, a West Point graduate who also served in the 1991 Persian Gulf War and is now president of Klein Steel Service in upstate Rochester."'When decisions are made without taking into account sound military recommendations, sound military decision-making, sound planning - then we're bound to make mistakes,' he said."To read the entire article, click HERE.


What do four United States Generals know anyway?

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Military Industrial Complex
gets a facelift; and i'm
concerned? Go for it
Pentagon! Keep up the
Great Work.