CHAIRMAN OF THE JOINT CHIEF OF STAFF

Hearken Fellow Americans:

It doesn't get any plainer or truer than this.

This guy was the CHAIRMAN OF THE JOINT CHIEFS OF STAFF!

How much more fact and credibility do we all need, to know that they're screwing us?

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Ex-top soldier: Iraq war ‘fiasco’ due to Rumsfeld’s ‘lies’
Rumsfeld had 'worst style of leadership I witnessed in 38 years of service'

"The US had no reason to invade Iraq in 2003, and only did so because of "a series of lies" told to the American people by the Bush administration", says Gen. Hugh Shelton, who served for four years as the US's top military officer.

Shelton, who was the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff from 1997 to 2001, makes the comment in Without Hesitation: The Odyssey of an American Warrior, a soon-to-be-published memoir reviewed at Foreign Policy by Thomas E. Ricks.

"President Bush and his team got us enmeshed in Iraq based on extraordinarily poor intelligence and a series of lies purporting that we had to protect Americans from Saddam's evil empire because it posed such a threat to our national security," Shelton writes in his memoir.
Shelton states that, in order to get the war going, then-Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld "elbowed aside Gen. Richard Myers and the other members of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and also intimidated and flattered Gen. Tommy R. Franks while working directly with him, and so basically went to war without getting the advice of his top military advisors."

The result, Shelton writes, was a war plan that amounted to a "fiasco."
Shelton reportedly saves his harshest criticisms for Rumsfeld himself, who he said had "the worst style of leadership I witnessed in 38 years of service."