Letters to the Editor
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Frist?
Frist!
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Glenn ..
Kudos to a job well done. I signed the petition. The traditional media doesn't have the balls to ask why Petraeus is only going on partisan media outlets(Hewitt and Faux Noise). I saw 2 minutes of Glenn Beck tonight. He is blowing a gasket over the Moveon.org ad. The war supporters don't have the facts on their side. At this point, all we can do is keep up the pressure. It hasn't gotten to the point of taking Thomas Jefferson up on his word(or was it James Madison). Our elected officials in DC better wake up to the fact that they represent us. If not, the day will soon come where we'll have enough money to start primarying wayward Reps and Senators.
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I love how Gen. P was ...
debunked before he even testified. That's the way to do it! Spinning on Fox and hiding the methodology will destroy any credibility this PR tool might have had.
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signed it
Also, a friendly early-poster proofing note: find-and-replace "Petraeus" for "Petreaus."
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True self-delusion
That video is the most picture perfect example of self-delusion I have ever seen. If you think that this in any way compares with General Petraeus' absolutely impressive testimony today on Capitol Hill, then you are truly cracked. A more valid comparison might be with Pam what's-her-name's videoblogs, and even there you come up way short. (She is a helluva-lot more photogenic for one!)
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Petraeus' chart on "Overall Weekly Iraq Attacks"
During his testimony, Petraeus repeatedly ducked the comparison between the GAO violence numbers (Figure 4 in the GAO report) and his weekly violence numbers by saying his data is more current and that the GAO data cuts off several weeks earlier. That is true in that the GAO time line stops after July 2007 (monthly instead of weekly) and the Petraeus chart stops after September 7, so ostensibly six more weeks are covered in his report.
However, if you look closely, the September 7 numbers are identical to the preceding week. They are identical in both the total and in each of the four components of the total. Clearly, they just repeated the final week of August and said that would be the numbers for the first week of September. If they will cook the end of the graph, what else did they cook? Of course, this will be attributed to an error due to the extreme pressure from the press.
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And Again
I'm going to keep repeating this until Betrayus is court-martialed for Dereliction of Duty and violating his Service Oath.
After reading Kevin Drum (at Political Animal) on Petraeus' brilliantly aiming his hearts-and-minds campaigns not at the Iraqis but at the American public, while Iraq burns all around him, I'm starting to believe that David Petraeus will very soon stand with Robert McNamara (another genius IQ unable to see past the end of a gun) and William Westmoreland as an unindicted war criminal.
Every word Petraeus speaks, every order he gives, every sentence he writes, every interview he grants in support of Smirky's and Darth's Endless War is a betrayal of his Service Oath to defend the Constitution against all enemies foreign and domestic, and his responsibility as a commander to his troops.
Posted by Yellow Dog, Friday, September 7, 2007 07:25 AM
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3Q2011 the earliest
Bank on it. There will be no materially significant withdrawal before then. The GOP has zero interest in effecting anything that the Dems can take advantage of or can exploit on their own. Human lives are one thing, this is politics.
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Sucker for a Guy in a Uniform
For some reason this all reminds me of how incredibly close Oliver North got to actually winning a seat in the Senate.
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Appropriate response
Appropriatately enough, the first news story I read about this video was how the critics said it was too hard on Gen. Patreaus -- and, of course, not Serious.
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@ jacksevanroo
Appropriatately enough, the first news story I read about this video was how the critics said it was too hard on Gen. Patreaus -- and, of course, not Serious.
Got a linky?
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The new Soviet general
General Petraeus repeated the talking point of the white house in such a laughable and predictable way that his first statement, claiming he has written his own report wth no interference from above was plainly false, even before he started to feed us the ridiculous nonsense he spent the day dispensing. The macabre scene he participated in was taken from the Soviet playbook. Soviet generals would tell the public how gerat their military was doing in Afghanistan, when the erality was the complete opposite. The Iraqi people themselves, the only ones who really know, clam by a wide margin that the surge has failed. The general is lying, and should pay the price for it.
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We owe Bush an apology!
He was just repeating what the military said all along --following the "commanders on the ground," IE, Petraeus. Now that it turns out it was actually Petraeus who was wrong for all those years, we should give the Bush team their credibility back -- just as soon as they dis-associate themselves from Petraeus, and promise to lead us using their own judgment and wisdom.
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Of course I couldn't help but notice
That you were able to put the video together well in advance of the testimony, confident that nothing the General would be telling Congress would deviate from the story line already in place.
How can the press corps even wake up the morning knowing full well that they're being played shamelessly.
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I think I recognize that troll...
from Yahoo stock message boards constantly pushing pump and dump schemes - at least it seems like the same sort of paid pumper/basher. Same crap, different thread.
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This is as lame as it gets....
How about a fact check on the assertion that the 2006 elections were about the troops? There was no mandate. Aside from that, this is just begging. Shameless, shameless, pleading to be noticed. Keep up the good work. Heh. Maybe you folks should join Code Pink. At least they got some TV time.
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Petraeus
I was a bit surprised by Petraeus today.
Even though my anti-hype filters have been working overtime in the buildup to Teh Big Event, some of it must have slipped through, because I wasn't expecting him to come across as so politically weaselly. I mean, I knew about all the cheer-leading history he's accumulated, but to watch him in action was an eyeopener.
He was ever so cute in his "I wrote today's report, not the White House," routine. IMO, he turned in his classified report to the WH spindoctors, they rewrote it (and we'll see it on the 15th), they gave him an advance copy, and he paraphrased it into MS Word. Thus, he "wrote it." Such truthiness!
Of course, our Right Wing Authoritarian troll brigade is in full swoon. Taking time away from photoshopping Gen. Petraeus' head onto Pammycakes' body, nobalzbbgun gamely (gamily?) jumps headfirst into the breach. I'm sure that peashooter will join us after his ice-cold shower.