General Batiste: "Donald Rumsfeld is not a competent wartime leader"

[ProSense]

Audio links from today's Senate (Democrats) hearings on Iraq

General Batiste:...Donald Rumsfeld is not a competent wartime leader. He knows everything except how to win."

General Batiste: "Secretary Rumsfeld's dismal strategic decisions resulted in the unnecessary deaths of American service men and women, our allies and the good people of Iraq. He was responsible for America and our allies going to war with the wrong plan and a strategy that did not address the realities of fighting an insurgency. Secretary Rumsfeld built his team by systematically removing dissension. America went to war with his plan. To say that he listens to his generals is disingenuous. We are fighting with his strategy. He reduced force levels to unacceptable levels, micromanaged the war, and caused delays in the approval of troop requirements in the deployment process, which tied the hands of commanders while our troops were in contact with the enemy...

General Eaton: "Mr. Rumsfeld came in to transform the US military. To turn the Army into a lighter, more lethal armed force. In fact, Rumsfeld's vision is a force designed to meet a Warsaw Pact type force more effectively - but we are not fighting the Warsaw Pact. We are fighting an insurgency: a distributed low-tech, high-concept war that demands greater numbers of ground forces, not fewer. Mr. Rumsfeld won't acknowledge this fact. And he has failed to adapt to the current situation. He has tried and continues to fight this war on the cheap."

[Virginia Dare]

1. President chimp has complete confidence in him...

Rummy you're doing a heck uv a job!

[NotGivingUp]

2. and not even a whisper of it on msm

[Bok_Tukalo]

3. There are a few things that are shocking about that post

One that really gets me is that we are fighting this conflict on the cheap.

The real cost for victory must be enormous.

[indepat]

4. Fight on the cheap so favored contractors could reap extra billions of

dollars while our forces had faulty body armor produced by another favored contractor and vehicles weren't adequately armored. Reap those extra billions of dollars largely on no-bid, unlimited cost overrun contracts to favored contractors who were screened by a political commissar to keep the rift-raft out (the enemy, political-wise) or do I have this all wrong?

[jimshoes]

5. Somebody should tell rumsferatu

that $300 billion is hardly cheap.

[Imagevision]

6. With so many generals speaking badly of Rumsfeld, what's it going to take?

Rummy is obviously unqualified for the job, he's sworn to serve at the pleasure of the president, Bush can get his pleasure from Gannon, this asshole Rumsfeld doesn't cut it!

His ass needS to be fired Asap!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!