[GreenKeys] The Fog of War

[wjneill@lcc.net]

And, as history repeats itself, we now have the benefit of Donald=20
Rumsfeld cast in the role as the 21st Century's answer to Robert=20
Macnamara=2E =20

After all, Rumsfeld fired Army Chief of Staff GEN Eric Shinseki because=20=

Shinseki dared suggest that Rumsfeld had woefully underestimated=20
the quantity of troops necessary to quell Iraq=2E

Bill Neill
Conroe, Texas

Original Message:
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From:  WA5CAB@cs=2Ecom
Date: Sun, 1 Feb 2004 22:43:59 EST
To: drhouse@mchsi=2Ecom, greenkeys@mailman=2Eqth=2Enet
Subject: Re: [GreenKeys] The Fog of War

Well, McNamara was strange alright=2E  Tried to force the Navy to buy the=20=

F-111=2E  Screwed up a whole bunch of other systems=2E  We despised=20
him, and didn't like his boss any better=2E

In a message dated 2/1/2004 8:48:32 PM Central Standard Time,=20
drhouse@mchsi=2Ecom writes:=20
> Regardless of your personal opinion of Robert Strange McNamara=20
> (Strange is his middle name) the insight into his life and experience=20=

> was and is absolutely fascinating=2E  He was fired by LBJ after he was=20=

> presented with the Presidential Medal of Freedom=2E  Mostly because=20
> McNamara wanted to pull out of Vietnam=2E  Less than half of the=20
deaths=20
> had occurred when he left the position of Secretary of Defense=2E
>=20

73
Robert Downs - Houston
CWO4 USNR Ret'd=2E
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