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The Observer Journal - Observation Leading to Insight: Category Archive for Generals

The Iraqi democrats are pleased that 550 metric tons of Saddam’s uranium [per the American far-Left, not atomic bomb uranium; Saddam’s ‘peaceful’ uranium] was successfully transferred to Canada. 550 tons, not pounds! T-O-N-S!

Posted by Merl Oberon Publisher at Monday, November 07, 2011 10:34 AM | Add Comment

"Clearly, putting 'Mission Accomplished' on an aircraft carrier was a mistake," President Bush said Monday. "It sent the wrong message." -- The Bush Lesson -- all any leader can say in public in a war is "Blood, Toil, Tears and Sweat"

Posted by Merl Oberon Publisher at Thursday, January 15, 2009 1:00 AM | Add Comment

The only thing any senior official in a democracy can say in public during ANY war is, "My fellow Americans we face Blood, Toil, Tears and Sweat" - today Bush admitted exactly this fact

Posted by Merl Oberon Publisher at Wednesday, November 12, 2008 1:16 AM | Add Comment

On August 29, 2003, the “car-bomb war” started.

Posted by Merl Oberon Publisher at Wednesday, February 06, 2008 1:59 AM | Add Comment

Great Britain 1907 = United States of America 2007 - Pre WWI before the great contraction? It is impossible to discount the impact of failure in Iraq on the American narrative

Posted by Merl Oberon Publisher at Tuesday, April 17, 2007 9:02 AM | Add Comment

"Gating off a Sunni neighborhood is not our idea of a free society," Gen. Campbell says. The words “our idea of” are so troubling and disturbing at so many levels

Posted by Merl Oberon Publisher at Thursday, April 05, 2007 10:26 AM | Add Comment

Office of Militarized "Lawfare" (formerly known as the Department of Defense) If the generals fail, get ready for "lawfare"

Posted by Merl Oberon Publisher at Monday, March 19, 2007 1:25 PM | Add Comment

Commandant of the United States Marine Corps says he asked Gen Franks again and again who would take charge of running the country once Saddam Hussein fell from power.

Posted by Merl Oberon Publisher at Monday, November 13, 2006 1:37 AM | Add Comment

In the mind of our generals, what is the steady state? War? Or peace? The quote leads some to think that our modern day generals are more of the mind of Napoleon's admirals and less of Nelson's.

Posted by Merl Oberon Publisher at Sunday, November 05, 2006 9:53 AM | Add Comment

Fatigue leads to bad judgment - "If I got two hours of sleep, I was happy.”

Posted by Merl Oberon Publisher at Wednesday, December 03, 2003 3:16 AM | Add Comment

War strategy hashed out at interagency working groups

Posted by Merl Oberon Publisher at Tuesday, December 04, 2001 2:00 AM | Add Comment
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