He was the man responsible for pool reporting, so the death of independent journalism (and our "free" press) can be attributed more to him than any other human being on the planet. Good riddance.
@13 - Gladly, thanks. He was a war mongering man. Period. Always HAPPY to see his type gone, and those that ignore history (as they say) are doomed to repeat it. I would like to see this country *not* at war some day... Every villain has friends and family btw, so spare me the yawnathon. I'm drinking bubbles tonight in celebration, and I will when ghwb goes as well.
Yawnathon? Spare me your internet shitspeak and grow a soul. And by the way, when you die, no one but you friends, assuming to have any, and family will give a flying fuck. Schwarzkopf will have biographies. You won't.
@16/17/18 - Well, if the lack of Schwarzkopfesque bio upon my demise means that I didn't trade blood for oil or gut my country's free press, you know what? I'm going to be OK with that. You. Are. A. Pawn.
@25 In not one of your posts (well, perhaps #18) do you exemplify the kind of behavior you demand in others. You are foul-mouthed, insulting, and display a very low level of emotional maturity. If you want people to show respect, you must show respect as well. Calling people names, insulting them only demonstrates that your moral position has no value to it; that you are incapable of perceiving morality beyond the toddler level.
that didn't take long to devolve into name-calling!
there are way bigger GF1 war criminals than Schwarzkopf still about, one in particular trundling his artificial heart about in Jackson Hole. Schwarzkopf, or any general, like even vaunted GF2 genius Petraeus, seems more like he's just doing his job, but much of his job was morally indefensible - slaughtering retreating soldiers on the Highway of Death, for instance.
come on, slog - can't you just shut up & "support the troops"!
@27 morality is not perceptible, it's imputed. People rightly feel *morally* outraged at the loss of life over our string of adventures and then the requisite hero worship this country enforces even for leaders who know better--your reaction being a prime example of morally reprehensibile elite ass-kissing.
@ 15 Actually if you delve deeper into his bio you see that he wanted to limit how far we went in Gulf War I to limit causalities and was pretty critical of Gulf War II due to how far it went. But please lump all people in the military as war mongerors, please continue to be superficial and continue to live up to the stereotype of the left.
@31: why do you join the military, and become a general, if you don't have at least a threshold level of tolerance for mongering war, then? he wanted to limit the mongering, but he mongered all the same.
I'm arguing that 1991 is a good while ago now, almost a generation ago, you might say.
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there are way bigger GF1 war criminals than Schwarzkopf still about, one in particular trundling his artificial heart about in Jackson Hole. Schwarzkopf, or any general, like even vaunted GF2 genius Petraeus, seems more like he's just doing his job, but much of his job was morally indefensible - slaughtering retreating soldiers on the Highway of Death, for instance.
come on, slog - can't you just shut up & "support the troops"!