Senior officers referencing Vietnam, ready to fire Rumsfeld, Wolfowitz, Myers

Any other country and these would be signs of a military coup…

“Army Col. Paul Hughes, who last year was the first director of strategic planning for the U.S. occupation authority in Baghdad, …noted that a pattern of winning battles while losing a war characterized the U.S. failure in Vietnam.”

“Some officers say the place to begin restructuring U.S. policy is by ousting Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld.”