[lbo-talk] The general's revolt

Gregory Geboski greg at mail.unionwebservices.com
Thu Apr 3 19:33:50 PST 2003


<< >oh, come on, it's a sign of serious divisions-- cracks in the power elite.
>get with the program, greg. ...>>

Thanks for the clarification. Great to see that workers have lots of horses in this race after all. Michael Klare, where's the sign-up sheet? :)

---------- Original Message ---------------------------------- From: Kelley <the-squeeze at pulpculture.org> Reply-To: lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org Date: Thu, 03 Apr 2003 15:31:45 -0500


>oh, come on, it's a sign of serious divisions-- cracks in the power elite.
>get with the program, greg. this is important stuff coz they might, like,
>throw down their weapons or get rummy to resign or sumpin so they can
>replace him with someone more aligned with the views of powell, scowcroft,
>or brezinski--or sumpin'!
>
>the mil wanted 500k to invade. early on, Rummy etc wanted that 100+k
>mentioned in this Nation article. The mil got twice that. And the 200k
>_was_ what more moderate hawks like Kenneth Pollack were advocating as a
>realistic force--assuming an Iraqi mil that fought back hard but was worn
>down from sanctions and lack of hardware. That number was also assuming
>significant battles in the south and in Baghdad, as well as the use of the
>Iraqi military's most formidable skills: excellent infosec
>defenses/operational security, the ability to move quickly, and commitment
>to the
>
>kelley
>
>p.s., the mil is fighting the PNAC inspired plans for a new, decentralized,
>just-in-time, flexible production mil up to fighting the war on terrism
>[tm]. the war party faction thinks that the old lumbering .mil sucks up too
>much money and is incapable of deploying quickly and is run by too many
>equivalents of fat, bloated "middle managers". they're talking jacking up
>the .mil budget to something like 4% of the GDP, IIRC. They want to
>redeploy troops out of Europe and into the ME and Asia. see also,
>resentments over the use of CIA leadership in Afghanistan and the CIA's
>'appropriation' of spec ops talent (Delta force, etc.) because it doesn't
>have any of its own that are competent.
>
>At 09:35 AM 4/3/03 -0800, Gregory Geboski wrote:
>> That this current crop of generals, like any other crop, disagrees over
>> military strategy, and engages in self-serving political positioning? Big deal.
>
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