Four Retired Military Officers Urge Bush to Avoid Using Soldiers as Backdrop in Political Battle

[sabra]

http://newsblogs.chicagotribune.com/news_theswamp/2007/03/bush_warned_aga.html#more

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Media Advisory

Generals Discuss President's Visit to Walter Reed
Urge Bush to Avoid Using Soldiers as Backdrop in Political Battle

Washington, DC--Four retired military officers will discuss the visit of President Bush to Walter Reed Army Medical Center later this afternoon. They will acknowledge the President's attention to the conditions at Walter Reed, and urge him to avoid using the visit as an opportunity to discuss the recently passed legislation in Congress...

Who:

Maj. Gen. Paul Eaton (USA, Ret)
Lt. Gen. Robert Gard (USA, Ret)
Maj. Gen Mel Montano (USANG, Ret), former Adjutant General of New Mexico
Lawrence Korb, former Assistant Secretary of Defense for President Ronald Reagan, and Senior Fellow at the Center for American Progress

[BOSSHOG]

1. Surround yourself with likeminded cowardly chickenhawks bush

You don't deserve to be in the same room as a "troop."

[tanyev]

2. He wouldn't use the soldiers for POLITICAL THEATER, would he?