General Tommy Franks, probably the biggest blundering fool to ever lead our country into battle, receiving the Presidential Medal of Freedom from another fool, and forever making a mockery of what used to be an honorable award.
The day Franks got the medal, December 14, 2004, Bush also gave it to George Tenet and L. Paul Bremer. The only way Bush could have picked three bigger losers that were involved in the Iraq fiasco to receive the award is if he had picked himself, Cheney and Rumsfeld to receive it. Tommy Franks, L. Paul Bremer and George Tenet? What a national disgrace and an absolute mockery of the Medal of Freedom.
And as the article points out, Franks screwed up royally by not listening to the obviously smarter, General Wallace. Another clear example of the total incompetence of these fools.
Tommy Franks-the fool who let bin Laden escape at Tora Bora and the fool who allowed the insurgents to live and to fight another day. He sure fitted in well with Bush, didn't he?
We need to take those medals back.
"Dash to Baghdad Left Top U.S. Generals Divided "The war was barely a week old when Gen. Tommy R. Franks threatened to fire the Army's field commander. From the first days of the invasion in March 2003, American forces had tangled with fanatical Saddam Fedayeen paramilitary fighters. Lt. Gen. William S. Wallace, who was leading the Army's V Corps toward Baghdad, had told two reporters that his soldiers needed to delay their advance on the Iraqi capital to suppress the Fedayeen threat in the rear. Soon after, General Franks phoned Lt. Gen. David D. McKiernan, the commander of allied land forces, to warn that he might relieve General Wallace. The firing was averted after General McKiernan flew to meet General Franks. But the episode revealed the deep disagreements within the United States high command about the Iraqi military threat and what would be required to defeat it. The dispute, related by military officers in interviews, had lasting consequences. The unexpected tenacity of the Fedayeen in the battles for Nasiriya, Samawa, Najaf and other towns on the road to Baghdad was an early indication that the adversary was not merely Saddam Hussein's vaunted Republican Guard. The paramilitary Fedayeen were numerous, well-armed, dispersed throughout the country, and seemingly determined to fight to the death. But while many officers in the field assessed the Fedayeen as a dogged foe, General Franks and Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld saw them as little more than speed bumps on the way to Baghdad. Three years later, Iraq has yet to be subdued.
