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• RAV: Jack Gillis

  Fri Jun 27, 2008
  • Keep up the good work at Newsvine! You guys are true professionals. Steve

• RAV: Jack Gillis

  Fri Jun 27, 2008
  • Keep up the good work at Newsvine! You guys are true professionals.

• Correctly Political: Liquid Lunch with Donald Rumsfeld

  Mon May 12, 2008
  • Cletus, thx. Indeed, I've been on record providing the same analysis I present here. No one at Fox (or CNN, NBC, NPR, etc) has, in my opinion, stifled my thoughts or comments.

• Correctly Political: Liquid Lunch with Donald Rumsfeld

  Mon May 12, 2008
  • Cletus, I concur. Guerrilla Warfare and Insurgency was not something the administration wanted to wrestle with and the reluctance to accept and act in this regard cost us valuable time.

• Correctly Political: Liquid Lunch with Donald Rumsfeld

  Mon May 12, 2008
  • Jack, many thanks for posting the correction to your piece. Steve

• Correctly Political: Liquid Lunch with Donald Rumsfeld

  Mon May 12, 2008
  • Wheel, agreed. However in 04, when we tried to get a handle on what elements we faced the Shia were believed to be on our "side". Sadr's militia was clearly not.

• Correctly Political: Liquid Lunch with Donald Rumsfeld

  Mon May 12, 2008
  • Cletus, sorry, forgot to respond to your question regarding my comments in 04: 24-NOV-04 "there's really four elements in the insurgency -- if the terrorism is the first part, the other three are the Shi'a, led by Sadr, but the other two parts are the Sunni portion."

• Correctly Political: Liquid Lunch with Donald Rumsfeld

  Mon May 12, 2008
  • Cletus, thx.

• Correctly Political: Liquid Lunch with Donald Rumsfeld

  Mon May 12, 2008
  • Scott, fair question. From my vantage point, as a retired senior non-commissioned officer, I felt as if our troops needed as much support as possible. The media was simply one vehicle towards that end. My services were, and still to this day remain, pro-bono.

• Correctly Political: Liquid Lunch with Donald Rumsfeld

  Mon May 12, 2008
  • Sure. The only attendee with the first name of Michael was indeed Marine LtGen DeLong, Former Dep Commander, CENTCOM. Great man!