50 Former U.S. Diplomats, Retired Military Say Bush Should Not Be Trusted

[Khephra]

(press release)

50 Former U.S. Diplomats, Retired Military Say Bush Should Not Be Trusted; Bush Has Made America More Vulnerable To Terrorists

9/28/2004 4:15:00 PM


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To: National Desk, Political Correspondent

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WASHINGTON, Sept 28 /U.S. Newswire/ -- Today 50 former high- level diplomats, generals and admirals declared President Bush has made America less safe and called for his ouster.

Members of the group are available for interview, including in Miami, where several are giving public presentations this week in the run up to the Presidential Debate on Thursday. Several are fluent in Spanish.

The group released a public statement that says President Bush has squandered American lives and should not be trusted.

"The claim that we are safer is the biggest lie of this campaign season," states the group. "Now we are bogged down there in a quagmire with no solution in sight."

Additional excerpts:

"The plain fact is that George W. Bush and his team have succeeded in making our country and our people less safe, and more vulnerable to new terrorist attacks, by an unnecessary war against a threat that did not exist."

"We have lost the hard-won respect and admiration that America enjoyed ... Some of these losses are irrecoverable and others will take decades to repair, a process we must begin immediately by electing a new administration."

The group also accuses the President of gross negligence, stating, "Prior to 9/11 Mr. Bush and his team ignored repeated warnings about the danger of terrorist attacks."

"The American people must surely not reelect someone presenting himself as a strong and resolute war leader who is responsible for such a sorry record of judgment and performance."

"Leadership in the wrong directions is not the leadership we need or want. We can have no trust in such leadership for the next four years. It is definitely time for a change."

The retired officials who signed the statement include five general and admirals. These include Retired Adm. William J. Crowe Jr., chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff under President Reagan and Retired Air Force Gen. Merrill A. (Tony) McPeak. McPeak, former Air Force chief of staff under George H.W. Bush, was Oregon chairman for the 1996 Dole/Kemp campaign and in 2000 was a backer of George W. Bush.

Their full statement is available at: http://www.diplomatsforchange.com/press/kits.shtml

http://releases.usnewswire.com/GetRelease.asp?id=37086

[Worst Username Ever]

1. That... is... beautiful.

Thanks for letting us know.

[TheDebbieDee]

14. Didn't this group put out a similar statement......................

last November or December, just before Saddam was found in his spider-hole?

[Carla in Ca]

15. There have been so many groups like this one

that have done this, or endorsed Senator Kerry.
Is there a way to collect all the articles of endorsement and/or not endorsing * together? One big list suitable for flyers/posters.

[grytpype]

2. The whore's response:

"But they support Kerry, which means they can't be trusted!"

[w4rma]

7. Or they just ignore these generals and admirals and statesmen.

The whores are pretending this isn't happening.

[Karenina]

3. One wonders...

WHAT will it take?

[Catch22Dem]

4. That's an impressive group of patriots

I remember when Gen. McPeak came out against Bush a few months ago, a freeper post read something like:

"Gen. McPeak has now outed himself as a traitor to this country and should be held accountable."

:wtf:

Where were these "support the president no matter what" assholes when Clinton was in office?

[HysteryDiagnosis]

12. "Gen. McPeak has now outed himself.....<<

50 former diplomats, generals and chiefs of staff have now (once again) outed this administration for being nothing but a bunch of lying thieving thugs who have this country so bullshitted that it isn't even close to being humorous. Not even a little. Email this to every frikkin news agency on the planet, domestic and foreign. Send it to Der Spiegel, Al Jazeera, Guardian everyone. I am sick of half of this country living in an alternate universe where up is down and left is right, war is peace.

[Gregorian]

5. So........what was it that finally made these people speak out?

The stolen election?
The Plame outing?
The spending of every dime of the surplus, and more?
The pronounciation of nuclear?
Letting 9/11 happen?
Not bringing Bin Laden to justice?
Dragging heels on the 9/11 Commission?
Invading Iraq?
What?!
Why now, besides being hours from election day?


These people are SLOW! You know, this entire government needs to go. When Senator Byrd, Representative Barbara Lee, among a handful, were the only ones to see the light early on. And when Bartcop and us in the forums were lightyears ahead, then just what good are these clowns doing for us? After all, we're paying them high salaries.

Oh well, better late than never.

[JohnOneillsMemory]

18. April 2004 brought us Fallujah, Abu Ghraib, widespread resistance

to the occupation with no way to stop it.

The cabal had no response other than resolutely happy face denial.

The lifers decided that strength with no brain is weakness.

[Beetwasher]

6. This Will Be Resolutely Ignored

by mainstream media as an irrelevant non-story about nobodies.

[mindfulNJ]

10. Kerry should somehow

work this into the debate on Thursday. Powerful stuff.

[Indie Media Magazine]

8. LOL. I could've told you that. nt

[n2mark]

9. Great

We DU's read this, what about the media. The voters do not hear or read this. This is the big problem.

Will CNN, FOX. MSNBC broadcast this?

[dolstein]

11. It's about friggin' time

Personally, I'm tired of hearing the Democrats cry "foul" whenever the Bush campaign argues that Kerry wouldn't keep this country safe. Rather than whine about how these charges are "unfair" or "dirty politics", the Democrats should instead have the guts to look the Republicans in the eye and say: "Oh yeah? Well YOU guys have failed to keep this country safe for the past four years, and you aren't planning on changing a single goddamn thing. We know that your approach to protecting this country has failed. It's time for a new approach, and the only way we'll get that is with a new president."

[pfitz59]

13. This retired officer says Bush* should be court martialed....

for desertion, teason, dereliction of duty, "hazarding the ship of state" and other crimes too numerous to mention. He must pay for his crimes against humanity. The entire BFEE needs to be locked up. Time for a new Nuremburg!

[struggle4progress]

16. Boosh the Botcher of Bagdad. eom

[Pachamama]

17. The 50 willing to speak out...imagine how many more there are that feel

...the same way, but are being silent.....

I wish they would be silent no more....

[JohnOneillsMemory]

19. Small numbers. Just over 50 Senators are fucking the whole planet.

So few men bringing on a global holocaust.