Editorial calling for Rumsfeld's resignation -- in 4 military papers
So, it looks like the troops aren't supporting the troops. Why do the Armed Services hate America?
AMERICAblog: A blog for a great nation that deserves the truth: "Editor & Publisher was able to get the entire editorial via The Ross Report. It will be published Monday in the Army Times, Air Force Times, Navy Times and Marine Corps Times. Here is the text:
TIME FOR RUMSFELD TO GO
'So long as our government requires the backing of an aroused and informed public opinion ... it is necessary to tell the hard bruising truth.'
That statement was written by Pulitzer Prize-winning war correspondent Marguerite Higgins more than a half-century ago during the Korean War.
But until recently, the 'hard bruising' truth about the Iraq war has been difficult to come by from leaders in Washington. One rosy reassurance after another has been handed down by President Bush, Vice President Cheney and Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld: 'mission accomplished,' the insurgency is 'in its last throes,' and 'back off,' we know what we're doing, are a few choice examples."
AMERICAblog: A blog for a great nation that deserves the truth: "Editor & Publisher was able to get the entire editorial via The Ross Report. It will be published Monday in the Army Times, Air Force Times, Navy Times and Marine Corps Times. Here is the text:
TIME FOR RUMSFELD TO GO
'So long as our government requires the backing of an aroused and informed public opinion ... it is necessary to tell the hard bruising truth.'
That statement was written by Pulitzer Prize-winning war correspondent Marguerite Higgins more than a half-century ago during the Korean War.
But until recently, the 'hard bruising' truth about the Iraq war has been difficult to come by from leaders in Washington. One rosy reassurance after another has been handed down by President Bush, Vice President Cheney and Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld: 'mission accomplished,' the insurgency is 'in its last throes,' and 'back off,' we know what we're doing, are a few choice examples."
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