Generals defend Rumsfeld

Hmmmmm let's see, 19 stars support Rumsfeld 13 stars oppose, guess he stays.

Several retired generals who worked with Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld, including a former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, yesterday decried calls for the secretary's resignation from other retired officers.

President Bush repeated his support for his point man in the war against terrorists.

"I think what we see happening with retired general officers is bad for the military, bad for civil-military relations and bad for the country," retired Air Force Gen. Richard B. Myers, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs under Mr. Bush, said in an interview with The Washington Times.

He said he would elaborate his views in an op-ed essay.

This whole story and the EM hype was really ridiculous. A certain number of generals are going to disagree on strategy and tactics regardless of the circumstance. It's been the case since the beginning of our republic from the revolutionary war, the civil war right up untill today. The fact that certain generals disagree with the Secretary of Defense is a dog bites man story if there ever was one.