gen. myers is a clueless idiot

did all of you see the interview with phillippe sand on DN last night? I want to know WHERE the bushies get these complete incompetents (and how this one managed to become a general):

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AMY GOODMAN: Can you talk about the former chair of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, General Richard Myers?

PHILIPPE SANDS: I had one lengthy and fascinating conversation with General Myers. I thought he was a decent man of integrity, but out of his depth. And on two issues, I was staggered, so staggered, in fact, that when I came home to London from my trip to the United States, I told my wife what I discovered in conversation with him, which I’m about to share with you, and she was disbelieving—she listened to the tapes—and said absolutely.

There were two points. Firstly, as everyone knows, the President took a decision that none of the detainees at Guantanamo would have any rights under the Geneva Conventions. It seems that General Myers was unaware of that. He was under the impression they had decided that Geneva would apply. So that was a fairly staggering discovery. But it was as nothing compared to the discovery, as we went through the techniques of interrogation one by one, that he had thought that these came out of the US Field Manual guide for interrogations. They were all prohibited. And as we went down the list, his jaw literally dropped. So I got the sense that the most powerful military man in the United States, indeed probably in the world, was blissfully unaware of what had been decided.
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http://www.democracynow.org/2008/5/8/torture_team_british_attorney_philippe_sands

looking at his bio, I am wondering if this is the idiot who stated that anybody opposed to the militarization of space was a fool (paraphrasing, but I seem to remember that the head of space command, somewhere around 93 or so, said that. I was in shock.)