And gottdamned if you don’t. Ol’ General Abizaid took a few heat rounds from both sides of the DMZ yesterday when he gave his statement to the stuffed suits on the hill.
Democrats, chiefly Sen. Carl Levin of Michigan, who will become committee chairman in January, have pushed for a timetable of withdrawals that would give the emerging Iraqi government four to six months before the U.S. began pulling out troops. Abizaid said he opposed that idea. “Under current circumstances, I would not recommend troop withdrawals.”
And from his right flank, a sniper calling for troop increases.
But it wasn’t just Democrats who expected to hear more out of Abizaid. Sen. John McCain of Arizona, who will become the committee’s senior Republican in January, said he found the general’s testimony lacking. McCain said he was “disappointed that you are basically advocating the status quo here today.”
What’d these Senators armchair generals think? That because Rummy got canned the top General runnin’ the war would have somethin’ different to say? Seems to me like some of ‘em were hopin’ to find out our Generals were just lapdogs for the SecDef. Surprise boys, our Generals, whether they get along with the SecDef or not, are gottdamned Generals and are prosecutin’ a war, not a frickin’ Sadie Hawkins dance.
Poor bastards must’ve been disappointed they didn’t get the answers they were fishin’ for so’s they could run to the camera’s and say, “Toldya so, Rummy was jacked up.”
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