As General Joe Stilwell said The higher a monkey climbs the more you see of his behind
Posted in General on 02. Oct, 2010
As General Joe Stilwell said, “The higher a monkey climbs, the more you see of his behind.”. Pledge to leave it stronger than when you came.Don’t blame the boss. He has enough problems.Don’t think of yourself as indispensable or infallible. “We need immediate disclosure of all relevant information,” said Mr McCain. He demanded to know the exact chain of command which led from the privates at Abu Ghraib to Mr Rumsfeld in person.To their evident embarrassment, the generals present could not produce the information.
But the guards were told they had to follow the Geneva Conventions for the treatment of prisoners of war, General Lance Smith, deputy chief of Central Command, said.RUMSFELD’S RULESDon’t begin to think you’re the President You’re not. The Constitution provides for only one.If you foul up, tell the President and correct it fast. Delay only compounds mistakes.Preserve the President’s options. He may need them.It is easier to get into something than to get out of it.The price of being close to the President is delivering bad news You fail him if you don’t tell him the truth. Others won’t do it.Don’t speak ill of your predecessors or successors You didn’t walk in their shoes.Remember the public trust. Strive to preserve and enhance the integrity of the office of the Presidency.
There was a pattern and a system,” Pierre Kraehenbuehl, the ICRC’s director of operations, said.How successful Mr Rumsfeld will be in blunting his foes’ criticism, was not immediately clear. Senator John McCain of Arizona, the most outspoken Republican on the committee, said he was “not satisfied” by what he had heard.But for all their dislike of his highhanded ways and disdain for Congress, other Republicans were likely to rally round, aware that his departure could provoke an even more dangerous crisis of credibility for President Bush himself.But Democrats were unlikely to be satisfied, echoing the demand of the New York Times, the Boston Globe and half a dozen other leading newspapers for Mr Rumsfeld’s resignation.Even some Republicans were impatient at the bureaucratic process that lay ahead. But I won’t resign simply because people make a political point of it,” he said.As he spoke, in the first of two appearances on Capitol Hill yesterday, new disclosures emerged about the scandal, including suggestions it could stretch well beyond the Abu Ghraib prison in Baghdad.In Geneva, the International Red Cross said it had warned US officials of mistreatment of prisoners in Iraq more than a year ago. But as the questioning grew sharp, the familiar combative Rumsfeld returned.