Het voetvolk rebelleert. De San Francisco Chronicle bericht:
'Newspapers for troops call for Rumsfeld's ouster.
Matthew B. Stannard, Chronicle Staff Writer
Saturday, November 4, 2006
An influential chain of newspapers considered must-reading by military forces from California to Baghdad will call for the ouster of Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld in a scathing editorial to be published Monday.
"Rumsfeld has lost credibility with the uniformed leadership, with the troops, with Congress and with the public at large. His strategy has failed, and his ability to lead is compromised. And although the blame for our failures in Iraq rests with the secretary, it will be the troops who bear its brunt," the editorial says, according to an advance copy released Friday. "The time has come, Mr. President, to face the hard bruising truth: Donald Rumsfeld must go."
The editorial will run in the 250,000 copies of Army Times, Navy Times, Marine Corps Times and Air Force Times. The newspapers are published under the umbrella Military Times Media Group by Gannett Co. Inc., not by the U.S. military, and have been popular among American forces since World War II.
"It is extremely widely read and influential for the professional military," said David Segal, director of the Center for Research on Military Organization at the University of Maryland.
The relationship goes two ways, said Segal. "I think it would be safe to say if the Army Times is saying that, it is something they are hearing from senior officers in the Army," he said.
The newspapers have long carried a mix of staff-written and wire stories of interest to their respective services. The November issue of Army Times, for example, contains cover stories on new body armor and tales of Silver Star recipients, alongside analysis of top generals' increasingly somber appraisals on the conflict in Iraq.'
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