- Jeff, This is in response to Wesley Clark's statement
that Rumsfeld's poor planning put troops at risk:
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- http://rense.com/general36/trip.htm
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- I wrote about their military theater training last September
in a now defunct newsletter. Rumsfeld had warnings of the conflict in
the military strategy by retired military personnel back in the summer
of 2002 . Their strategy training was in fact, ineffective & flawed,
as you will read in the following excerpt from the newsletter....
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- Lt Gen. Paul Van Riper further explained, "The most
elaborate war game the U.S. military has ever held was rigged so that it
appeared to validate the modern, joint-service war-fighting concepts it
was supposed to be testing."
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- Further information:
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- MC02: Pentagon Leaders Defend War Game
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- "The Pentagon's top leaders on Tuesday defended
a $250 million war game designed to test new tactics and equipment in battles
with terrorist states, insisting that the just-completed exercise was not
rigged to produce a victory by 'friendly' forces. 'The money was well spent.
And I'm sure we'll learn lessons that will make it better spent next time,'
Marine Gen. Peter Pace, vice chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, told
reporters. But another Marine, retired Lt. Gen. Paul Van Riper, said 'the
exercise was entirely scripted' and that he stepped aside as commander
of the 'Red' or opposition force in Millennium Challenge 2002 after four
days rather than continuing to participate under those circumstances."
(Norfolk Virginian-Pilot, August 21, 2002)
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- I would provide you with the original link to this info-but
the internet has erased this.
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- One other link for the info is on a secured site, but
you can read excerpts from it here:
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- http://www.pilotonline.com/military/ml0821gam.html
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