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“SecDef, I’m having a little difficulty finding any source that says that over 250 generals/admirals endorsed Bush in ‘04.”

It was when General Tommy Franks (Ret.) endorsed President Bush. CNN transcript from the RNC:

“And each of us on this platform, along with countless others, including more than 250 retired admirals and generals, whose names you see on the screen behind me, stand united, united in the firm conviction that the best way to defend America today is to stand by a resolute commander in chief and reelect George W. Bush.

And now I am honored to introduce a recent addition to our group, a highly decorated and widely respected retired general from the United States Army, the former commander of the U.S. Central Command, the man who led our forces to victory in Afghanistan and Iraq, General Tommy Franks!”

http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0409/02/se.01.html

I watched this and have it on tape, too. :D

And for the record, 12 retired generals and admirals endorsed Kerry at the DNC. :) Kerry claimed that he had 100 others who he would reveal, but I cant find any record of him revealing them. ;)

“That doesn’t mean as much as you probably would like to think it does, though. The military is known to vote Republican,”

I wonder why they vote Republican. :)

“and many people in the military undoubtedly hold incorrect views on U.S. interference in foreign affairs.”

An ‘ad hom’ attack against the military without proof. :P I suppose that General Odem holds “correct” views while General Franks holds “incorrect” views?

“There are many military figures who also oppose the war in Iraq, including former Sec. of Navy (under Reagan) and decorated Marine Veteran James Webb, and (the now deceased) Col. David Hackworth. Even more people like Gen. Norman Schwarzkopf toe the line, but have expressed and continue to express definite reservations about even going into Iraq in the first place.”

...and there are many more who support it. :) And General Schwarzkopf’s stance doesn’t surprise me too much. You may be interested to know that he consideres Samaritan’s Purse a radical right-wing organzation (because they sent Arabic Bibles to US troops in the Persian Gulf War suggesting that they ask their Saudi counterparts to help them read them :D).

So yeah…sorry its so late…but just saw this now. :D

Yeah, this debate’s long over but I just wanted to note that THIS piece of information is, in fact, false. Through DNA analysis, they’ve been able to identify the Cohenim – the descendants of Aaron, positively. Just do a search on it…

_But it is equally clear that President Bush and the neo-conservative war hawks either have no inkling of what actually motivates this hate, or they simply don’t care or don’t feel compelled to complicate the issue by telling the truth to the American people.

Bin Laden’s (and by extension, the terrorists and other Islamic extremists’) “beef” with the United States is really quite simple. National Review senior editor Ramesh Ponnuru wrote that “the radical Islamists’ broader quarrel is with American power: not with the uses of that power, but with the fact of it.” But anyone who has a rudimentary knowledge of the situation and is being honest with himself knows that Mr. Ponnuru has it exactly backwards._

You quote bin Laden as saying:

“It is also clear that these people are
truly motivated by hate. Bin Laden himself
freely admitted this when he told Bergen
that ‘the hearts of Muslims are filled
with hatred toward the United States of
America and the American president [at
that time, Clinton].’”

In case you’re too inept to notice, ObL said “the USA”, not “the world”. (Or do naively and idiotically believe the US is the world?) If ObL is full of hate toward the rest of the world, how come he has never attacked anyone who didn’t attack muslims first? How come the only countries he targets are those that take part in the US’s colonialist mentality?

9/11 wasn’t an unprovoked assault, it was a response to the US’s own actions. You brought it on yourselves with your own foreign policy.