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Bush and Cheney were already keeping us in Iraq with no timetable or exit strategy.
This guy's just presenting the same aimless plan with new window dressing.
Not sure why Petraus is an expert? Try Education and Experiance for a starter. Try looking at his decorations and the 4 stars on his uniform and most would say he is an expert in warfare.
Shit.
Rumsfeld could have done about the same as this guy.
When Crocker arrived, one of the first changes he made was to get rid of all that crap hanging on the walls...."the war is over, get rid of this stuff". I have some of it here with me. I don't think they ever got rid of that captured Iraqi tank in the parking lot that the military dumped there for a souvenier, although Crocker tried to have that removed as well.
WAPO did a personal interest profile on him a long time ago, if I find it, I'll post it. Does not sound like the guy we all watched yesterday carry water for these NEOCONS.
Bush is the Commander in Chief......Petreaus' job is to carry out the orders....not answering policy questions.
It should have been Bush in the chair answering the questions.
BTW.....whatever happened to the War Czar that Bush appointed some time back???
Bush will do anything but take responsibility for his disaster in Iraq.
Iraq Hearing Depicts a Nation Divided
http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/us/AP-US-Iraq-D...
Divided????.....not on the war.....majority of Americans want us out of Iraq....and have for some time .
but it's worth watching again. Obama is really funny, and his delivery, as usual,
great. We need a laugh sometimes.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wVlZZdxZ9AU&feat...
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080408/bs_nm/usa_e...
No shit Sherlock.....
Well, if they want the job...I have some KY Jelly to sell them.
Thanks for the video link.....
I sure did need a laugh this morning!
aptly named......
I so agree.......I am so sick of Bush literally getting away with murder....and never held accountable for anything.
The FBI office in New Haven found no evidence supporting the Lieberman campaign's allegations that supporters of primary challenger Ned Lamont of Greenwich were to blame for the Web site crash.
http://atrios.blogspot.com/2008_04_06_archive.h...
And that's because he's dumb as a post:
http://digbysblog.blogspot.com/2008/04/theres-r...
Just what we DON'T need.....four more years of dumb.....
Hillary Rodham Clinton wants voters to decide the nomination based on who can coolly and competently run the country. She had better hope they don’t study her recent campaign too closely for the answer.
Clinton has overseen two major staff shake-ups in two months. She has left a trail of unpaid bills and unhappy vendors and had to loan her own campaign $5 million to keep it afloat in January. Her campaign badly underestimated her main adversary, Barack Obama, miscalculated the importance of organizing caucus states and was caught flat-footed after failing to lock up the nomination on Super Tuesday.
It would be easy to dismiss all of this as fairly conventional political stumbling — if she hadn’t made her supreme readiness and managerial competence the central issue of her presidential campaign.
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0408/9478....
I was teaching my youngest kid again yesterday about the Ten Commandments and the Beatitudes and we both agreed that as "A man of God" Bush was a failure!
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As a man, he's a failure too.
I was teaching my youngest kid again yesterday about the Ten Commandments and the Beatitudes and we both agreed that as "A man of God" Bush was a failure!
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No.
This is how he got his stars.
WASHINGTON, Sep 12 (IPS) - In sharp contrast to the lionisation of Gen. David Petraeus by members of the U.S. Congress during his testimony this week, Petraeus's superior, Admiral William Fallon, chief of the Central Command (CENTCOM), derided Petraeus as a sycophant during their first meeting in Baghdad last March, according to Pentagon sources familiar with reports of the meeting.
Fallon told Petraeus that he considered him to be "an ass-kissing little chickenshit" and added, "I hate people like that", the sources say. That remark reportedly came after Petraeus began the meeting by making remarks that Fallon interpreted as trying to ingratiate himself with a superior.
Meant to direct that at the troll.
Fear, incuriosity, disdain for learning, and resistance to challenging Manwhore McCrazy just may get us another 4 years of this Bush-like character. Why, if McCrazy's rich wife hadn't funded his campaigns and kept him up, selling him to a large senile, like-minded population in AZ, he'd just be another homeless Vietnam vet on the streets of Phoenix...begging for enough money to buy a malt liquor and muttering to himself instead of the American public. (No slight intended to Vietnam vets who, through no fault of their own, are truly suffering from that other fiasco.)
Ha! The guy's a genius!
The mistake was baked in the cake about 5 and half years ago, when Gen. Shinsecki said he'd need several hundred thousand troops to do the job, and Bush pushed him out of the military for saying it.
Failure was assured at that point.
keeping America dumb gets people like W and MoreWar McCain in office.
Some people just can't take the truth, I suppose.
The Justice Department, once known for taking down giant corporations, has put off prosecuting more than 50 companies suspected of wrongdoing over the last three years.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/09/washington/09...
Totally, totally agreed! Bush as a "man" is a total loser/murderer. Unfortunately where we live his family is somewhat loved. Fortunately though I'm seeing more and more bumper stickers that say "01/20/09". He lost here in 2004. And btw, Bush can bite me.
;o)
Congratulate the good General and Our troops on their military successes - then stop.
The problem is NOT a military problem. It is a DIPLOMATIC and POLICY problem.
All questions and/or interogations should be directed at CROCKER.
It is where they belong and in challenging him youy are not attacking the General or the troops.
Please. Don't be stupid.
Tears run down President Bush's cheek as he takes part in a Medal of Honor ceremony in the East Room of the White House, Tuesday, April 8, 2008,
http://news.yahoo.com/nphotos/Medal-of-Honor-ce...
Wow...maybe he'll get an Oscar....what a performance !!
Yes...it came during Hillary's questioning....
http://www.veracifier.com/post/6800/hillary-cli...
Thanks for the link. So why did this not get major play in the press and on the blogs. This seems very serious to me.
http://thehill.com/leading-the-news/craig-offer...
i think this would be a better point to be making against him than that he's wrong or just ill informed or making 'gaffes' or having senior moments. He's much more dangerous than that.
no wmd's
no democracy established there
US is no safer now
so why are we still there, wasting billions per day, in an unwinnable situation that only creates further problems for the US?
why is Petraeus brought back to testify again and again if he can't answer that? he isn't being questioned on his ability, training or experience.