Monday, September 11, 2006
National field demotion, 'stinging rebuke'
I would consider impeachment of George Bush as sort of a national field demotion of the commander in chief of the armed forces, for dereliction of duty.
What Bush has gone and done is just what J.E.B. Stuart did to Robert E. Lee Lee at Gettysburg: He went off on a damn tangent, in Iraq, just when he was needed most.
Summary from Wikipedia (Stuart is Bush; "the lead element" is Al Quaida; Lee is the nation; the "stinging rebuke," with any luck, is impeachment!):
As Lee and Union General George G. Meade marched toward each other at Gettysburg, Lee ordered Stuart to screen the Confederate army as it moved down the Shenandoah Valley and to maintain contact with the lead element, Richard S. Ewell's Second Corps, as it advanced in the direction of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. Stuart somehow interpreted these orders to once again attempt to circle the Union army and he found himself well to the east of Ewell, out of contact with the Union army and out of communications with Lee. Lee was left in serious difficulty, in enemy territory without detailed knowledge of the terrain, roads, or his opponent's strength and positions. And this lack of knowledge was the primary reason that the Battle of Gettysburg started almost by accident on July 1, 1863, before Lee could concentrate his army as he had planned. Stuart arrived late on the second day of the battle, bringing a caravan of captured Union supply wagons with him, and receiving a stinging rebuke from Lee.
--ER
What Bush has gone and done is just what J.E.B. Stuart did to Robert E. Lee Lee at Gettysburg: He went off on a damn tangent, in Iraq, just when he was needed most.
Summary from Wikipedia (Stuart is Bush; "the lead element" is Al Quaida; Lee is the nation; the "stinging rebuke," with any luck, is impeachment!):
As Lee and Union General George G. Meade marched toward each other at Gettysburg, Lee ordered Stuart to screen the Confederate army as it moved down the Shenandoah Valley and to maintain contact with the lead element, Richard S. Ewell's Second Corps, as it advanced in the direction of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. Stuart somehow interpreted these orders to once again attempt to circle the Union army and he found himself well to the east of Ewell, out of contact with the Union army and out of communications with Lee. Lee was left in serious difficulty, in enemy territory without detailed knowledge of the terrain, roads, or his opponent's strength and positions. And this lack of knowledge was the primary reason that the Battle of Gettysburg started almost by accident on July 1, 1863, before Lee could concentrate his army as he had planned. Stuart arrived late on the second day of the battle, bringing a caravan of captured Union supply wagons with him, and receiving a stinging rebuke from Lee.
--ER
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I would not think that such a Confederate as you would so defame J.E.B.'s name with such a comparison. May your donferderate Grand-daddy chastise you in your dreams tonight.
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