GENERAL PETRAEUS OR GENERAL BETRAY US? Cooking the Books for the White House General Petraeus is a military man constantly at war with the facts. In 2004, just before the election, he said there was âtangible progressâ in Iraq and that âIraqi leaders are stepping forward.â And last week Petraeus, the architect of the escalation of troops in Iraq, said, âWe say we have achieved progress, and we are obviously going to do everything we can to build on that progress.â Every independent report on the ground situation in Iraq shows that the surge strategy has failed. Yet the General claims a reduction in violence. Thatâs because, according to the New York Times, the Pentagon has adopted a bizarre formula for keeping tabs on violence. For example, deaths by car bombs donât count. The Washington Post reported that assassinations only count if youâre shot in the back of the head â not the front. According to the Associated Press, there have been more civilian deaths and more American soldier deaths in the past three months than in any other summer weâve been there. Weâll hear of neighborhoods where violence has decreased. But we wonât hear that those neighborhoods have been ethnically cleansed. Most importantly, General Petraeus will not admit what everyone knows: Iraq is mired in an unwinnable religious civil war. We may hear of a plan to withdraw a few thousand American troops. But we wonât hear what Americans are desperate to hear: a timetable for withdrawing all our troops. General Petraeus has actually said American troops will need to stay in Iraq for as long as ten years. Today, before Congress and before the American people, General Petraeus is likely to become General Betray Us. Paid for by Moveon.org Political Action, political.moveon.org, not authorized by any candidate or candidateâs committee. http://www.foxnews.com/projects/pdf/Move_On_Petraeus_NYT.PDF
I think Petraeus is basically stuck, having to go along with the party line, but I do think it was irresponsible for the Left to place a full page ad about betrayal. Again, both sides have legitimate complaints that they could be doing something about rather than politics as usual, IMO. c
No surprise here, below is an example of the typical behavior of a move on dot org member AMSTERDAM, Netherlands (AP) - A U.S. citizen has confessed to using an axe to kill a Dutch student after failing to find a soldier to attack, his lawyer said Tuesday. The suspect, Carlos Hartmann, 41, of Tecumseh, Mich., has confessed to the Sept. 8 killing on a train platform in the southern city of Roosendaal, defence lawyer Peter Gremmen said. Gremmen said Hartmann wanted to punish the Netherlands for its support of the war in Iraq.
Liberals invariably respond to any criticism of them on national security grounds by claiming that their "patriotism" is being called into question. This is a variation of their technique to avoid arguments on the merits of various issues by screaming racist, homophobe, corporate tool, hatemonger, etc at anyone who challenges them. With this background, it is ironic to say the least that the premier moonbat organization, moveon.org, challenges a highly decorated and admired general by...what else, calling his patriotism into question. I don't know how else you could interpret their play on his name. I haven't heard one of the leading democrats take them to task for accusing a four star general of "betraying" the country, a crime punishable under the UCMJ by death. Perhaps we should give Mrs. Clinton a pass, since she has been preoccupied by yet another of the Clintons' seemingly unending Chinese campaign finance scandals.
Not to mention that those same silent Dem Senators voted unanimously to confirm him and charged him with making this very report. But of course when their base moonbats accuse him of betraying the country, you can hear the crickets chirping.
Hmm. Well, i thought it was a rhetorical argument, the lead says "or", an assertion, rather than a definitive. Hey, good luck to him, he'd have to have one of the worst jobs going at the moment.