BIG: 26 ex-diplomats and military leaders say Bush must go...

[VOX]

A link to this story is over on the LBN board, but I think it is of sufficient importance to warrant a post in General Discussion. The group of 26 diplomats and military leaders has signed a "Bush Must Go" document which will be presented in Washington DC next week.

This will be big medicine against *.
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http://www.latimes.com/news/politics/2004/la-na-diplo13jun13,1,1142936.story?coll=la-home-headlines
THE RACE TO THE WHITE HOUSE
Retired Officials Say Bush Must Go
The 26 ex-diplomats and military leaders say his foreign policy has harmed national security. Several served under Republicans.
By Ronald Brownstein
Los Angeles Times Staff Writer
June 13, 2004
WASHINGTON — A group of 26 former senior diplomats and military officials, several appointed to key positions by Republican Presidents Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush, plans to issue a joint statement this week arguing that President George W. Bush has damaged America's national security and should be defeated in November.

The group, which calls itself Diplomats and Military Commanders for Change, will explicitly condemn Bush's foreign policy, according to several of those who signed the document.

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Those signing the document, which will be released in Washington on Wednesday, include 20 former U.S. ambassadors, appointed by presidents of both parties, to countries including Israel, the former Soviet Union and Saudi Arabia.

Others are senior State Department officials from the Carter, Reagan and Clinton administrations and former military leaders, including retired Marine Gen. Joseph P. Hoar, the former commander of U.S. forces in the Middle East under President Bush's father. Hoar is a prominent critic of the war in Iraq.

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It is unusual for so many former high-level military officials and career diplomats to issue such an overtly political message during a presidential campaign.

A senior official at the Bush reelection campaign said he did not wish to comment on the statement until it was released.
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[tedzbear]

1. Kick!

:kick:

[Bluebear]

2. 9/11 9/11 9/11 9/11 9/11 9/11 9/11

"A Bush administration ally said that the group failed to recognize how the Sept. 11 attacks required significant changes in American foreign policy. "There's no question those who were responsible for policies pre-9/11 are denying what seems as the obvious — that those policies were inadequate," said Cliff May, president of the conservative advocacy group Foundation for the Defense of Democracies.

"This seems like a statement from 9/10 people the importance of 9/11 and the way that should have changed our thinking."

[Poiuyt]

3. Diplomats are not idiots

I'm sure they realize that 9/11 took place and have taken into account the ramifications. They probably just felt that the way to respond to 9/11 was to get the people responsible rather than attacking a country that had nothing to do with it.

[theivoryqueen]

4. I was surprised when I read this on Yahoo

pleasantly! Good for them. They've had enough of sitting on their hands while this admin ruins all they worked to achieve. Maybe a few key federal employees will take a cue from these people and belly up to the whistleblowers bar.