Who's integrity and word of honor would you put more trust in?: a guy who used 5 draft deferments to avoid military service during wartime or two men who've honorably served and dedicated their lives to serving America in uniform?
BY CHARLES C. KRULAK and JOSEPH P. HOAR
In the fear that followed the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, Americans were told that defeating Al Qaeda would require us to ``take off the gloves.'' As a former commandant of the U.S. Marine Corps and a retired commander-in-chief of U.S. Central Command, we knew that was a recipe for disaster.
But we never imagined that we would feel duty-bound to publicly denounce a vice president of the United States, a man who has served our country for many years. In light of the irresponsible statements recently made by former Vice President Dick Cheney, however, we feel we must repudiate his dangerous ideas -- and his scare tactics.
We have seen how ill-conceived policies that ignored military law on the treatment of enemy prisoners hindered our ability to defeat al Qaeda. We have seen American troops die at the hands of foreign fighters recruited with stories about tortured Muslim detainees at Guantánamo and Abu Ghraib. And yet Cheney and others who orchestrated America's disastrous trip to ``the dark side'' continue to assert -- against all evidence -- that torture ``worked'' and that our country is better off for having gone there.
An excellent and important op-ed which will be completely ignored by the worthless mainstream media.
And of course --it goes without saying that you can expect the usual cat-calls from the right-wingers and accusations of traitor and turncoat to be lobbed against the character of these two good men.
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