WASHINGTON, Jan. 20, 2008
The Follies Of Fundraising
A Retired General Charged A Fee To Use His Name To Raise Money For Wounded Troops
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Retired General Tommy Franks charged a professional fundraiser to use his name in raising money for wounded troops. Bob Schieffer wonders what kind of example that sets. (AP)
After General Tommy Franks invaded Iraq with a force so small he didn't even have enough troops to guard the ammunition dumps that Saddam Hussein abandoned, I questioned the strategy.
Sure, he was under pressure from Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld who was determined to prove a small modern force could do what larger forces used to do.
But we don't hire our generals to rubber-stamp every idea their civilian bosses come up with. We hire them for their expertise on military matters, and Franks went along with a plan that violated the first rule of warfare: never invade unless you have an overwhelming advantage and a firm idea of what to do next.
Franks has since retired, but I have questions now that go far beyond his military expertise.
Congressional investigators have discovered he charged a professional fundraiser $100,000 to use his name to raise money for wounded soldiers.
Which leads me to ask: What kind of PERSON would insist, or even ALLOW himself, to be paid to raise money for those who were wounded while serving under him?
Franks says he severed his connection to the fundraiser when he realized most of the money he helped raise went to the fundraiser, not the troops. But doesn't he owe the troops a little more than that?
Here are two names he may want to add to his rolodex: The Walter Reed Society and the Yellow Ribbon Fund.
They are mostly volunteers and they'll see that whatever help he wants to give will get to those who need it - the troops - so many of whom served in his command.
By Bob Schieffer
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Probably because he knew that the money was going to the pockets of the parasitic scum running the scam, and not to the soldiers.
Even though he took a commission for helping those carrion eating buzzards, for which I don''t blame him, he is still amongst the lowest slime for taking part in helping these vampires scam people.
Your pimp service has been reported, creep.
Take it to the porn sites, where it belongs
The world looks upon a very dark time in America.
He sits on a tremendously good retirement package after the debacle of the Iraq war. His shame should make him want to help for nothing!
Well said!
"We are assured by high-minded folks that we know for a fact that Saddam Hussein and his regime had no connection to al Qaeda. But we don''t know that for a fact. We know as the 9/11 Commission reported that we have no direct evidence on ongoing collaboration between Saddam''s regime and al Qaeda. But we don''t know for sure that there was none. Robison''s post points in the other direction."
What high-minded folk would that be? *** Cheney??? George Bush???
Whatta crock!
But here''s something that''s NOT A SECRET: both Saddam Hussein and bin Laden were buddies with the USA, and the USA gave them money, weapons, training, intelligence, etc. SO, the USA supports terrorists, murderers, madmen, etc.!!!
Face facts, re.****: there was no justification for attacking, invading, and occupying Iraq, except that Bush wanted to be a "cowboy war prezdent" and Cheney wanted to install permanent military bases in Iraq (done!) and use them to threaten the rest of the middle east, as part of the neocon plan to rule the world through force, murder and mayhem. Read the PNAC documents if you don''t know about this. Cheney and his buddies published their evil plans for all the world to see.
Re: "Retired General Tommy Franks charged a professional fundraiser to use his name in raising money for wounded troops."
It was clear to many that this craven moron lacks any integrity, so this is hardly a surprise.
He will need this money to defend himself before his war crimes tribunal.
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It is so difficult to understand how such
a man could have risen to be a General.
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- by ioweign January 20, 2008 2:39 PM EST
- But we don''t hire our generals to rubber-stamp every idea their civilian bosses come up with. We hire them for their expertise on military matters, and Franks went along with a plan that violated the first rule of warfare: never invade unless you have an overwhelming advantage and a firm idea of what to do next.
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That is why so many generals have retired under Bush as President. If you don''t have a president that will listen intelligently, the generals are not going to bend over for a AWOL dry drunk president, well there will always be a Franks and Petraeus in the crowd...