Sunday, June 05, 2005
Elizabeth Sullivan
http://www.cleveland.com/news/esullivan/index.ssf?/base/opinion/1117877825326810.xml&coll=2&thispage=1...Who else will pull no punches about "the extreme neocons and their extreme liberal pals (?) ," as Hack once put it, who have never worn a combat boot but send others' kids to fight irrational wars with squishy goals and nonexistent exit strategies?
Never since Vietnam have the uniformed services become so riven with "yes men."
Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld had to shop around before he found a battlefield commander compliant enough to shelve decades of war plans to fight the Iraq war on the cheap. Then his lieutenants went about ferreting out other "dissidents."...
It was Hack who revealed through his syndicated column that Rumsfeld was signing condolence letters for fallen troops with a mechanical pen...