Petraeus calls allegations against him "completely wrong"

SP4: Of CourseSep 13th, 2007 - 00:09:34

Give a general a job

Don't tell him the goal

send him to the wolves

If he has success, or not, destroy his reputation

and you want the folks who perpetrate this sham to lead America?

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GooseSep 13th, 2007 - 02:13:06

Vote him out.

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CynicSep 13th, 2007 - 16:18:05

I don't think he was lying,
but he certainly was 'economical with the Truth'!

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Asking the author to judge the bookSep 14th, 2007 - 03:16:43

No one is in a position to offer any alternatives to Petraeus' message, because he has the floor, and Bush's ear. Petraeus is stuck fulfilling his mission, and the very limited field of view of both Bush and Petraeus blocks them from seeing the wider picture (not that Bush would absorb it, anyway). Bush's speech tonight was exactly what his followers want to hear, and no one else's opinion will be changed, except for a few 'strays' like Congressman Baird who falls victim to wishful thinking. His polling bounces up and down within his own Republicans, and the other 2/3 of the population wrote this whole thing off long ago. If the White House executed the war as well as the P.R. effort, we'd have been out of Iraq years ago. The comparison to Korea is nonsense - when was the last time an American was wounded in Korea, or was shot at or bombed?

All that matters now is exactly what mattered 3 years ago, or 3 months ago, or 3 weeks ago - the Iraqi government has to find a way to unite their own people to see IRAQ as more important than sectarian or tribal legacies. Tony Snow included Kurdistan tonight on CNN, which is also nonsense - the Kurds have their own viable economy and police force, and do not even consider themselves as part of 'Iraq'; but really a distinct country and people with nothing to do with Shia or Sunnis. If the entire country looked like Kurdistan, we could leave tomorrow.

Unfortunately, with elections coming, our leaders see this as political/partisan, which just confuses the voters all the more. Bush has no plan, except to stick it out until Iraq develops a governmental backbone. Without that, all the current good statistics about 'Iraqis coming forward' and such will dissolve into civil war. The Iraqis are so disgusted right now, they've seen us pay off the Sunni sheiks for support, and everyone wants 'a piece of that'. The Shia are taking more and more ground in Baghdad, and the protection of Shia areas by their own militias have reduced the total violence - that does not help the Sunni one iota, as they're losing their property to the Shia, day by day.

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