Reply #37: Historically, flag rank/4*s get the boot for criticizing the CIC/policies [View All]

[Divernan]

And I'll give ya three examples (1st 2 from a WaPo article).

Please think about these before you are so quick to trash this guy's name and reputation. Because if he is getting sacked for disagreeing with Bush/Rumsfeld, you'll be playing right into the neocons' hands to start sexual rumors about him.
1. 1990. General Michael Dugan was fired as Chief of Staff of the Air Force for comments he made to reporters about the planning for the 1991 Gulf War

2. 1995. Navy Admiral Richard Macke was sacked as Commander of the Pacific for remarks he made about US Marines accused of raping a 12 year old Japanese girl.

3. In Nazi Germany, the only Germans who plotted to remove Hitler were a group of Army generals. Their plot failed and they were executed. My source for this is a retired European professor who lived through the Nazi occupation of Czechoslovakia. He pointed out that there were organized resistance groups of civilians in all the nazi occupied countries, except Germany . There, only these German generals opposed Hitler because he offended their traditional sense of mlitary honor.

Given this man's position, if anyone would be disgusted with Rumsfeld's policies and the cost in lives to undertrained, under equipped soldiers, it would be this man.