For many, all the questions that could be asked of Gen. Petraeus boils down to the same one asked of him by Sen. John Warner last time he testified in front of Congress:
SEN. WARNER: . . . Are you able to say at this time, if we continue what you have laid before the Congress here as a strategy, do you feel that that is making America safer?
GEN. PETRAEUS: Sir, I believe that this is indeed the best course of action to achieve our objectives in Iraq.
SEN. WARNER: Does that make America safer?
GEN. PETRAEUS: Sir, I don’t know actually.
Six months later and Bush’s “surge” later, that answer is clearly no, as the situation in Iraq is getting worse, and as TomDispatch points out, the “success” of the surge was always an expensive illusion for which payment will someday come due. The netroots have been promoting A Responsible Plan, which has been endorsed to date by 50 Democratic congressional candidates and 3,500 people (why haven’t you signed up?), and Matt Stoller posed the question of what they would ask Petraeus to some of the Responsible Plan congressional candidates.
What would YOU ask of Petraeus?
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saw all the goobers licking betrayuses ass and each other ,thier all dirty!
Watching the Senators joking and laughing as they greet each other is always jarring. I don’t think I could ever stand to be in the same room of some of these pols who have made such disaterous decisions. I think I’ll vomit about now.
Once again the military becomes a political
armshill.big typo: Petraeus s/b Betrayus.
“Sir, I dont. No actually.”
Let the White-wash begin. But on your boots people! We will be wading Bull-crap!
Who cares what the PR Man says?
It’s usually lies.
I have two questions for the General….”How many men do you expect to sacrifice simply to achieve your career aspirations?”
and “How DO you sleep at night carrying the heavy load of intellectual dishonesty that you do?”
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Nicole said:
I haven’t signed up because I’m a coward. Once the administration shows its true colors and forms the Fourth Reich do you think I want my name to be on a list like that? Those are the first people going to the concentration camps.
McCain is up.
we can never leave iraq untill every swinging dick in iraq has become bush botts ,
McCain is telling us Petraeus and Crocker are patriotic Americans.
Gen’l Petraeus, since you’ve decided to be a shill for the Republicans instead of a military commander, why don’t you go f*ck yourself? Thank you.
Tool.
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I think McCain is about to start pitching Time Shares in the Green Zone.
why is liberdouch not cupping mccsnanes balls in his hands? you got to sacrifice if you want to be vice president!
“thank you my freinds, I hope I can count on your vote”
McCain says that once we beat Iraq, terrorism will be over and our soldiers can come home.
What a great question John McC. Oh no questions? Just an excuse to pimp your presidency run, sweet. Free AirTime on NPR
putz.
Do you think they’ll break in with shots of the Green Zone being bombed?
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McCain just gave us his evil laugh. It was creepy.
emphasa @ 10:
i wonder if folks in dresden, germany circa 1945 ultimately concluded the silence stategy paid off.
“Just little bit more death and destruction, please?”
general betray-us please go home!
as mcnertz says untill every iraqy becomes a us collaborater we cant leave our interests there are to importent ,
:In the recent fighting in Basra our troops supported elements of the Badr Brigade which is strongly align with Iran.Is it our policy now for soldiers to fight and die in support of a militia that is supplied and supported by a member of the axis of evil Iran?
Who will be the first Democrat to say “Mr Chairman I ask that Candidate McCain’s election statement be stricken from the record”
Why don’t you bring back the draft?
From my OT post below, which is now On-Topic. FYI
♣Bangkok Bob♠ @ 29:
greg @ 29:
That is a very obvious but, politically inconvenient question.
Petraeus says, “Stuff is getting better.”
Oh wait, that was Kevin Costner in the, ‘The Postman’.
It’s all Iran’s fault!
What is our objective in Iraq?
the most obvious but unasked question.
Weaseldog @ 32:
god damned right! if iran had been turned to cinders we,d have won! errr wait!!!!
In addition:
Spell out for us….
What is the objective
What is the mission
What is winning
General Petranus says, “Always bring a towel”.
Alice Hussein @ 3:
A shill, a pimp, for Bushco’s illegal war of aggression.
“general petreaus, do you believe china, russia, iran, europe, south america, africa, the entire middle east and, for that matter, the polar bears in the arctic circle will all join up and conspire against the u.s. if we continue on this present course? and if so, do you believe that’s a struggle the u.s. can hope to achieve “victory” in?
“general petreaus, are you a fundamentalist end-timer?”
“general petreaus, as a student of u.s. history, do you recall whether or not the “i was simply following orders” argument got any nazis off the hook at nuremberg?”
i see another star for betrayuses shoulder comeing up, poor bastard thiers a heavy load on his shoulders !
bilhelm-hussein-X @ 36:
And, “Don’t Panic!”
Yay! They are finding more weapons caches!
I wonder if that has something to do with all the weapons we’re giving away / losing.
Bomb..bomb…bomb……bomb.bomb iran…..
HOW can ANYONE that lives in the real world believe ANY of these lies???
Fixed news will have bile for months …..
NEW YORK - Retail gas prices will peak near $3.60 a gallon in June, but prices at such lofty levels will make many Americans think twice about hitting the road this summer, the Energy Department said Tuesday.
Well of course people aren’t PLEASURE or non discrentionary driving MORONS. So go ahead just jack up the price to make up for lost profits!!!!!!!!!!
You Oil Company bastards and your sham titles and privileges really need to be reined in.
BIG TIME
General, can you tell us what “winning” means? What do we “win” and how do we know we have?
Well, to say things are getting better now- with the surge and everything else- would logically mean that pre surge, things were NOT going well. Thus, I’d expect to find lots of testimony and clips from government figures saying just that. But there are none: the line has always been things are getting better- pre surge and after. Therefore, Patreous- or any other mouthpiece for the administration- has no credibility given they have proven they cannot be trusted to deliver sober accurate assessments of the situation.
Here’s what I would ask Petraeous: Since both reductions and increases in violence are used as indicators to show the surge is working, it appears that the level of violence is not being used as an indicator of success. Then, exactly, what permanent improvements has the surge created which allows you to draw the conclusion that this mission will lead to a successful political solution? Based upon the military strategy we are now following when, in your estimate, will you know whether we have failed? (When our weary and traumatized troops are unable to mobilize for another deployment to Iraq is not an acceptable answer.)
Why do I even subject myself to this.
God DAMN
Petraeus has argued that finding more weapons caches is a sign they we’re winning.
If I use a gardening analogy, discovering even more weeds to pull is not a sign of progress. In fact and increasing quantities of weeds to collect is a sign that I’m falling behind.
Finding more weapons caches is a sign in my view that activity is increasing and that our Iraqi enemies are better supplied.
What would I ask Petraeus.
With all the information out now, Do you think the US was justified in invading Iraq?
And the media really luvs McCain, while he was talking, they started putting up his “National Honors”.
unfuckingbelievable.
LA, I agree. What the Hell I’m I watching for? Betrayus will get his six more months, the death count will rise and McCain will say how successful it all is, and the ignorant Americans will swallow it. Why do I even get up in the morning?
Why bother asking questions of Patraeus? He has no credibility, thus his answers are immaterial.
L.A. Confidential @ 46:
Lots of incredulous boo’s here. Especially at the constant use of the term Al Queada in Iraq, instead of Insurgents.
betrayus has just told you none of these goobers running for president are going to bring the troops home! i concur!
The MoveOn.org General Betrayus ad is what got the Rethuglicans worked up? Time to clean more house this November!
Weaseldog @ 47:
good point.
L.A. Confidential @ 42:
I thought congress just gifted them another big chunk of subsidy payments? If the oil industry is going to be corporate welfare whores, they could at least give back a little. We’re not inflating the cost of goods and services for our benefit.
Even so, Cantarell and now the Caspian are in decline. Conventional World Oil production peaked in 2005. It is in decline now. Total liquids may well be declining now.
The oil industry knows this is there last chance to cash in, as oil supplies go into decline and the world slips into war to compensate.
Sen. Levin’s speech said it all. It was outstanding. After that,McCain sounded like a wet rag.
Displaced persons? I guess he means the millions of Iraqi refugees. Hmm. . .
General, how do you sleep knowing that you are killing innocent people, and supporting war crimes by backing george bush and the rest of his administration?
P.D. @ 49:
Those of us with developed discretion find it impossible to tolerate evil and dysfunctional deeds yet we are given the brush off when we point out the clear and obvious flaws.