Another General Dissents

Marine General Gregory Newbold was Director of Operations for the Joint Chiefs of Staff. He quit in disgust a few months before the war in Iraq was launched, frustrated by the "zealots" determined to go to war. Here's a quote from a column in Time Magazine that captures the feelings I have had from the beginning. These people will burn for what they've done.

"My sincere view is that the commitment of our forces to this fight was done with a casualness and swagger that are the special province of those who have never had to execute these missions--or bury the results. "