Admiral Mullen sees the Iraq War as "a generational war." Is this what we are looking towards?

Recall how General Pace earned our admiration when he stood up to Donald Rumsfeld on the issue of torture ... and then again when he stood up to Mr. Cheney as regards widening the war map to include Iran?

Of course, that voice will soon be silenced since (see previous posting) General Pace has become the first JCS Chairman NOT to be renominated to his post, according to this morning's news from the White House.

Well now, enter the new man on the President's to-be-named list. Likely to be nominated as the next Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff is

Admiral Michael Mullen, currently the Chief of Naval Operations (CNO).

He has spoken often and long on the issues surrounding our Middle East adventures and, among other interesting pronouncements has stated that, "The enemy now is basically evil and fundamentally hates everything we are -- the democratic principles for which we stand ... This war is going to go on for a long time. It's a generational war."

That alone might make me a tad nervous, but his view of the "Naval Operations Concept" last year as shown below ... really makes me nervous!

One of our local talking heads on the radio here in Washington State suggested that if you liked our quick action on the dikes in New Orleans during Katrina and if you thought that Rudy Giuliani was Our Saviour on 9-11, you're going to just love the Bush-Cheney-Mullen team and some of their coming attractions! Look at just exactly who's taking center stage in the slide signed by Admiral Mullen above. Isn't that Saudi Arabia, Iran and and most of both Sunni and Shi'a Islam in the Middle East?

My brother, Richard in Connecticut believes that General Pace was only the last standing guard of the neoconservative remnants in DOD. I guess I don't agree with him this time.

Instead, as I study the chart above, I ask myself, "Why are navy admirals suddenly in charge of everything in the Middle east?"

... I think I know how to spell ...

Poseidon Adventure

Maybe we should put the impeachment Proceedings against Mr. Cheney on hold, Dennis ... instead, we might think about putting some immediate effort into blocking the Chairman, JCS nomination first.

(Yes, that's a Poseidon C3 launch!)