| So. How's General Petraeus "September report"? Well, between the expected rosy and glowing reports of progress, Petraeus admitted that we need to stay in Iraq indefinitely.
In other words, stay the course!
The New York Times:
It was just another of the broken promises and false claims of success that we've heard from Mr. Bush for years, from shock and awe, to bouquets of roses, to mission accomplished and, most recently, to a major escalation that was supposed to buy Iraqi leaders time to unify their nation. We hope Congress is not fooled by the silver stars, charts and rhetoric of yesterday's hearing. Even if the so-called surge had created breathing room, Iraq's sectarian leaders show neither the ability nor the intent to take advantage of it.
(And check out McClatchy's report on what Petraeus didn't mention in yesterday's House testimony.)
The rightwing spin machine is kicking into full gear, working overtime to distract DC Democrats that there's nobody following them.
By the way, check out what this radical lefty extremist has to say about the war on Iraq:
"[Rumsfeld] had written a list of the worst things that could happen, but we didn't do the contingency planning on what we would do about it. So we watched those buildings get burned down, and nobody told the divisions, 'Hey, go in there and declare martial law and whack a few people and it will stop.' Then the insurgency started, and we didn't acknowledge it. They said it wasn't an insurgency. They looked up the definition. They said it was a few dead-enders! And so we didn't respond in a way that might have stopped it. And then the civil war started at the beginning of last year. I call it a civil war, but some say no, it's not a civil war, it's a war against civilians. In fact, we have total civil disorder."
Same extremist on the "war on terror":
"What is the greatest threat facing us now? People will say it's terrorism. But are there any terrorists in the world who can change the American way of life or our political system? No. Can they knock down a building? Yes. Can they kill somebody? Yes. But can they change us? No. Only we can change ourselves."
Gee, if only our leaders had as much wisdom and insight as that dude. |
