What Does General Myers Believe?

[LiviaOlivia]

What Does General Myers Believe?
by Armando
Dkos
Sun May 29th, 2005

I have always had a hard time trying to figure out what General Richard Myers, the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, really thinks about anything. Reading this account(http://tinyurl.com/8occw ) of his appearances this morning on the Sunday shows doesn't help. Indeed the statements are worrisome. Does he have a clue?:

Gen. Richard Myers, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said the U.S. has done a good job of humanely treating detainees.

Did he really say that?

The human rights group Amnesty International released a report last week calling the prison camp "the gulag of our time."

Myers said that report was "absolutely irresponsible." He said the U.S. was doing its best to detain fighters who, if released, "would turn right around and try to slit our throats, slit our children's throats."

That inspires confidence in the humane treatment that will be offered General Myers. Boy, it suuuure does.

"This is a different kind of struggle, a different kind of war," Myers said on "Fox News Sunday."

So do DIFFERENT rules apply General Myers? That seems to be the implication here. Yes, I am even more confident of that "humane" treatment you are talking about. Suuuure.

The four-star general said the U.S. military had detained more than 68,000 people since the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, and investigated 325 complaints of mistreatment. Investigations have found 100 cases of prisoner mistreatment and 100 people have been punished, Myers said.

325 complaints? 100 cases? This is balderdash. There have been over 100 cases of prisoners DYING IN US CUSTODY in Iraq and Afghanistan! link: http://tinyurl.com/bns3n

And finally this:

Myers said he did not think the United States should have used more troops in the Iraq invasion but acknowledged that progress has proved slower than Pentagon officials had hoped.

"I don't think we understood that people had been suppressed, and their spirit had been suppressed to the point where it wasn't just going to naturally blossom once they had the opportunity," Myers said on CBS' "Face the Nation."

Naturally blossom? Did he actually use that phrase? Gawd I hope he knows he is full of crap. It would be scary if he did not.

http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2005/5/29/175012/886

[punpirate]

1. The first casualty of war...

... is truth. It gets worse when the military brass start talking like politicians--especially bad politicians.

[unhappycamper]

2. Meyers is a sock puppet and a waste of air.

He spouts the misadministration line.