ANOTHER GENERAL SPEAKS OUT

(From Atrios --> ThinkProgess)

I think the calls by senior officers for the resignation of the Secretary of Defense are unprecendented in our history. Rumsfeld is making Michael FEMA Brown look good.


Another general joins ranks opposing Rumsfeld
Defense secretary 'carries too much baggage,' Swannack says

Thursday, April 13, 2006; Posted: 6:53 p.m. EDT (22:53 GMT)


WASHINGTON (CNN) -- The commander who led the elite 82nd Airborne Division during its mission in Iraq has joined the chorus of retired generals calling on Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld to leave the Pentagon.

"I really believe that we need a new secretary of defense because Secretary Rumsfeld carries way too much baggage with him," retired Maj. Gen. Charles Swannack told CNN's Barbara Starr on Thursday.

"Specifically, I feel he has micromanaged the generals who are leading our forces there," Swannack said in the telephone interview.

"And I believe he has culpability associated with the Abu Ghraib prison scandal and, so, rather than admitting these mistakes, he continually justifies them to the press ... and that really disallows him from moving our strategy forward."