"TIME Magazine is running what it calls a “full-throated” critique of the Iraq war by Marine Lt. Gen. Greg Newbold (Ret.) He’s one of two generals who opposed the plans before the war, calling the Iraq war “unnecessary” and a distraction from Afghanistan. As he says, “I would gladly have traded my general’s stars for a captain’s bars to lead our troops into Afghanistan to destroy the Taliban and al-Qaeda.”
So opposed was he that he resigned his position as director of operations for the Join Chiefs four months before the war … and then kept his mouth shut until now."
Back to Iraq
aka This Fucking "Overseas Contingency Operation"
"This is the Army, son. Your opinion doesn't matter.
- Roger. Acknowledged. I'd figure I'd proffer it, just in case."
~LT G
...Famous last words of a Milblog.
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