Here we go again. Someone who goes along to get along finally makes retirement, cashes a pension check or two, and NOW he’s got a conscience. NOW he’s having second thoughts.

Please spare us this nonsense, Mr. Batiste. You sold your soul, and nothing you ever do can get it back for you. When your opinion actually mattered, when you might actually have spared lives, you did nothing.

Now you are insignificant, meaningless, and doomed to wallow in the fetid pool of impotent regret you dug for yourself. It’s too late. Just go away.

Thanks to Batiste for speaking out.  The trouble with religious nuts is that the only people they respect are the other nuts in their church.  Bush, Cheney and Rumsfeld are in a pretty small church, eh?

Too bad that “guys like me” (Batiste) don’t have the gumption to speak out BEFORE they retire in safety to count their pensions.

Taking pot shots at administration from a powerless base is about as effective as using a pea shooter to stop a grizzly.

Do you guys really think a person like Rumsfeld gives a continental damn what you think of him? (or Cheney or Rice or Bush, for that matter. They’re all having the time of their pathetic little lives, and no one is going to take them off the ride by simply asking them to resign.)

Now that these generals are retired and their pension secured they become ‘outspoken’ !

Where were they when it mattered to talk ?

Or was it then just a matter of ‘orders are orders’ and yes, we have heard that one before too.