Bush Repudiates Gen. Moron...and yet

[headscratcher4]

http://salon.com/news/wire/2003/10/22/bush_general/index.html

he continues to keep his post.

It begs the question of the Commander in Chief: If Boykin is spouting things that area not policy or Administration message, and if he is wrong on his interpretation of events: how can you trust him as an inteligence analyst?

I keep coming back to it: if Boykin is speaking out of school, as a Dep. Secretary of Defense, Boykin should quit or Bush should fire him. Bush has taken the namby-pamby way out. He doesn't want to upset his fundumentalist supporters (who agree with Boykin, Hell, Bush might agree with Boykin both about Islam and God' plan for his Presidency), so keeping this moron in his job is political. It is Bush's right to do so, but Boykin's statements are both a distraction and a media bonanza for those around the globe who already have serious doubts about US motives, use of intelligence, goals, etc.

 

[aerocontrols]

I keep coming back to it: if Boykin is speaking out of school, as a Dep. Secretary of Defense, Boykin should quit or Bush should fire him.

Just FYI

Donald Rumsfeld is the Secretary of Defense.

Paul Wolfowitz is the Deputy Secretary of Defense.

I think here we would put the Secretaries of the Army, Navy, and Air Force.

Powell A. Moore (for instance) is an Assistant Secretary of Defense.

David S.C. Chu (for instance) is an Undersecretary of Defense.

Gen. Boykin (for instance) is a Deputy Undersecretary of Defense.

I also think he should be, at minimum, moved to another job. But the media has been playing a little loose with his title, IMO, to pump up this scandal.

MattJ

 

[subgenius]

h4: "Bush has taken the namby-pamby way out."
By trying to mollify opposing constituencies on this and other issues he may well alienate both.
At some point take a stand. I think you earn respect that way. I don't think the religious right will squawk too much if he's just moved to a lower profile and told to be quiet.
In this one Boykin has to go, his comments being very detrimental to anything we're trying to acheive over there. This really added credence to the Islamic world's view that we are engaged in a continuation of the Crusades.
I'm sure its getting a lot of play in the media over there. Much less the terrorist training camps and schools.

 

[Mr Manifesto]

Interestingly enough, this exchange was posted in a cartoon on www.mnftiu.cc (which I won't post because it contains naughty words... link here).

"OK, really- what does it take to get fired in the Bush admistration? Is there no limit to how bad you can f*** up? I can't believe they don't all just run around robbing liquor stores for the hell of it."
"Job security is a beautiful thing."
"You want job security? Join the military."

 

[subgenius]

WASHINGTON, Oct. 23 — Last Friday, the Republican chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee and his top Democratic colleague sent a private letter to Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld that questioned the propriety of comments made by a top Pentagon general, William G. Boykin.

Mr. Rumsfeld not only did not respond, but on Tuesday, after the chairman, Senator John W. Warner of Virginia, made the letter public, the defense secretary said he knew nothing about it. "It may be somewhere around the building," Mr. Rumsfeld told reporters on Capitol Hill, "but I am not aware of it."

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/10/24/p...00&en=4501f54d4c4fc8ca&ei=5062&partner=GOOGLE

I know nothing, I see nothing.