GOP Candidates Considering Picking Iraq War General As Vice President

Washington Times:

Three of the eight announced 2008 Republican presidential campaigns are considering retired Army Gen. Tommy Franks as their pick for vice presidential candidate, according to Republican Party operatives.

Gen. Franks, commander of U.S. Central Command until he retired in 2003, orchestrated the military campaign that ousted Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein.

The choice of Gen. Franks as vice president would be a direct affront to antiwar Democrats, who plan to make opposition to the Bush administration's handling of the war the main plank of their campaign platforms.

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Comments

[ezrider]

06:28 PM on 09/02/2007

There is a God.
Tell me I'm not dreaming.
Judy Ruliani and Tommy Franks on the same ticket.

Oh happy day.

[naijaman]

06:19 PM on 09/01/2007

Franks? LMAO...GOP in freefall indeed.

[SRegnet]

01:56 PM on 09/01/2007

Interesting, perhaps. If Wes Clark shows up
as the Democrat's VP choice, the Republicans
will want to get a General for their ticket also.

[SergeantD]

12:02 PM on 09/01/2007

Tommy Franks, that book-shilling bitch, forgot the oath he took to support the Constitution of the United States, and instead signed off on the half-baked pipedream of Wolfowitz, Feith, Rumsnamara, and "Dead-Eye" Dick Cheney.

He then disgracefully abandoned the troops he had painted into a corner by leaving his post and command in a transparent attempt to avoid culpability for an operational meltdown early on in the occupation.

Franks was neither a competent tactician, nor a savvy strategist. And in the end, he didn't even have the sack to stick around to perform even token damage control.

Yeah, listening to that starstruck sycophant lecture the American people on loyalty and courage for an entire campaign season would be entertaining indeed.

[RanTalbott]

01:07 PM on 08/31/2007

What a great opportunity for ads for the Democratic candidate.

Shot 1: a small mountain of bricks. Caption/voiceover: This is how much plastic explosive was stolen in Iraq because Tommy Franks left it unguarded.

Shot 2: An array of a dozen or so photos of our casualties. Caption/voiceover: these are just a few of the thousands of Americans killed or wounded by IEDs made with those explosives.

Or, a video of Iraqis looting and rioting. Voiceover: America entrusted Tommy Franks with the security of Iraqis. Can we trust him with our own?

[ashabot]

12:59 PM on 08/31/2007

Ah lovely. The Republicrite party ... huff'n'blow...all brawn - no brains ... balls to the wall ticket, the "if it doesn't work, work it harder" club.

[Ladyrantsalot]

12:55 PM on 08/31/2007

Tommy Franks will go down in history as a strategic, operational, and tactical buffoon. They will be teaching him at the military academies for generations: "now class, this is what you DO NOT do if you want to avoid being a big, sorry loser."

"ambition + stupidity = dead troops."

[WTFbush]

12:46 PM on 08/31/2007

Jesus Christ could be running as a Republican and He wouldn't get my vote.

[Grannysue]

12:45 PM on 08/31/2007

OMG, FRANKS, wait a minute the guy screws up Iraq beyond belief and the GOPERS are going to run him??? How about Franks in his uniform with Rudy dressed in Drag and of course Larry sitting on a toilet doing the toilet two step, what an ad, GOP, STRONG, SOFT AND WELL YOU KNOW.
These people are pathetic.

[gvincent]

12:37 PM on 08/31/2007

20 bucks says it wont be him. Huckabee is the next GOP Veep Candidate.
http://www.crookedinc.com

[Christian]

12:24 PM on 08/31/2007

Franks is a yes man who help make Iraq a mess. He went along with too few troops, he left ammo and weapons laying all over the place as he moved to Baghdad telling others not to worry, it was not his concern. The last thing we need is a brown nosed general who knows little about civilian affairs. He has no honor in my book!

[projectaristotle]

12:10 PM on 08/31/2007

does anyone else get the feeling that the president is truly becoming a figurehead, and has done so more and more over the past six and a half years? it's almost like we'll have four branches of government soon - executive (vp), judicial, legislative, and military (president).

[mommadona]

12:04 PM on 08/31/2007

TOMMY FRANKS...TOMMY FRANKS...OH YES..

YOU MEAN THE GENERAL WHO DENIGRATED THE AMERICAN FLAG BY HAVING IT MADE INTO A SHIRT THAT HE WORE IN PUBLIC FOR "ROLLING THUNDER" WHEN A BIG DEAL WAS BEING MADE ABOUT A CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT AGAINST THE "DENIGRATION OF THE AMERICAN FLAG"?

OH, YOU MEAN THAT PERPETUAL HYPOCRITICAL POLITICAL BROWN-NOSER BARNEY FRANKS?

[mommadona]

12:26 PM on 08/31/2007

correction and apologies to Barney Franks...last line should read TOMMY FRANKS.

Sorry.

[LeftVetPatriot]

12:56 PM on 08/31/2007

Freudian slip

[Qbear]

11:33 AM on 08/31/2007

Glad there's NO direction from Rove and his minions of who is on the 08 ticket...eight of eleven have the SAME VP???

In the words of our fearless Cheney sock-puppet

BRING IT ON!

See how far the f*cktard who ONLY guarded the Ministry of OIL while the rest of Iraq fell to chaos, who disolved all the Bathists, who Petraeus has to FIX all his mistakes, who didn't have body armor or armored trucks for our troops....yeah BRING IT ON!

[TitaniumAvatar]

12:08 PM on 08/31/2007

Just what the US needs; another Republican from Texas on the ticket.

At least this one is not a draft dodger.

[waiguoren]

11:11 AM on 08/31/2007

Franks was a Great General !??!

His Iraq "plan" was perhaps the most inept ever conceived by an American commanding general, and that includes the many blunderers during the Civil War.