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Mikey, if I ever need a cheerleader I'll know who to turn to. It's a strange fucking world these days - first GW starts sounding like Jimmy Carter talking about eeee-vil dick-taters, now I'm hearing a whole bunch of Republicans sounding like Robert fucking McNamara.

One of the first ways that you can tell a military plan isn't going the way they want it to is that the level of criticism of the press increases. If you think former generals are freaking out just because DOD's not playing by the same rules they used to play by, you have very little understanding of the professionalism of those men. Retired officers could be saying aloud what their colleagues still in uniform can't.

The "profound" changes that Rumsfeld is attempting to implement is in part an abandonment of the Powell doctrine.

That would be a major mistake. I repeat what I said before - if we are encountering serious logistics problems in the first two weeks, in part because we did not anticipate the level of resistance we encountered - we have a major fucking problem someplace.