Funny isn't it. Whilst serving in whatever senior capacity, top brass in the military or leading politicians are circumspect in going public. But, when they are off the leash, especially in the USA, and start writing their memoirs or appearing on talk-shows, they really unpack!
Step up to the plate Hugh Shelton, the top military man during the Clinton and Bush eras. His new book says it straight - between the eye-balls. The Daily Beast reports:
"Hugh Shelton was impeccably apolitical while serving as the nation’s top military man under Presidents Clinton and Bush. Now, not so much. He talks to Lloyd Grove about Bill Clinton (good), Donald Rumsfeld (bad), and John McCain (crazy), among others. Among the highlights:
• Rumsfeld, according to Shelton, is a power-mad know-it-all who won’t listen to military advice.
• McCain is a ranting bully with “a screw loose.”
• Gore is a supercilious grandstander who once interrupted an Oval Office meeting to berate Shelton for a military mishap, only to be swatted away by Clinton.
• Clinton is “a man of great character,” Shelton tells The Daily Beast about Clinton, who tearfully apologized to him for the Monica Lewinsky scandal.
• Shelton also insists that the Pentagon’s don’t ask, don’t tell policy, recently ruled unconstitutional by a federal judge, should remain in place."
Step up to the plate Hugh Shelton, the top military man during the Clinton and Bush eras. His new book says it straight - between the eye-balls. The Daily Beast reports:
"Hugh Shelton was impeccably apolitical while serving as the nation’s top military man under Presidents Clinton and Bush. Now, not so much. He talks to Lloyd Grove about Bill Clinton (good), Donald Rumsfeld (bad), and John McCain (crazy), among others. Among the highlights:
• Rumsfeld, according to Shelton, is a power-mad know-it-all who won’t listen to military advice.
• McCain is a ranting bully with “a screw loose.”
• Gore is a supercilious grandstander who once interrupted an Oval Office meeting to berate Shelton for a military mishap, only to be swatted away by Clinton.
• Clinton is “a man of great character,” Shelton tells The Daily Beast about Clinton, who tearfully apologized to him for the Monica Lewinsky scandal.
• Shelton also insists that the Pentagon’s don’t ask, don’t tell policy, recently ruled unconstitutional by a federal judge, should remain in place."
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