In Military Matters, Do You believe Durbin & Reid, Who've Never Heard a Shot Fired in Anger or David Petraeus?

Question

A 4-Star Army General who has won nearly every single award and honor offered by his peers and superiors? The General was confirmed by the US Senate 81-0, THAT'S EIGHTY ONE TO NOTHING for his position, but now that his report is expected to indicate that we're finally on the right track in Iraq, the two biggest stooges in the United States Senate, Dirty Harry Reid, the land swindle king of Nevada, and "Dick" Durbin, a product of the Chicago/Dailey political machine (which is somewhat worse than the old Tammany Hall Group in 19th Century New York City) are going to pre-empt the report of an acclaimed military specialist and preach to the few pathetic souls who will actually listen to them, that Petraeus is either a fool or a liar. They wonder why all of America is rejecting the Democratic Party? Here's a good example of their sickening partisan politics and their monumental disengenuousness. These two charlitans should be tarred & feathered, and run out of town on a rail.

Answer 1

Your question and statement really need no response. Kudo's to you for telling it like it is. Truly David Petraeus is as credible a man as this country has seen in a long, long time. This is a man that should jump into the race for president, on the conservative ticket. He would be a shoe in for the job.

Your depiction of both Reid and Durbin hit the nail on the head. One has to ask: "what do these two really represent other than trying to discredit those who are part of the solution?"

The party of FDR and Harry Truman has truly hit a new low ! It is fitting that someone like Hillary Clinton should represent this ilk !

Answer 2

Since the General is actually in Iraq and is probably an expert in military matters (or he would not be a general), I would tend to believe him more than the politicians. If Petraeus says pull the troops out, lets go home. If he says give us more time, give him more time.

EDIT

Just out of curiosity, I looked them up on Wikipedia. Petraeus graduated from West Point, a pretty good place to come from if you want to be a military expert and has been in the military since the 1970's. The closest thing Reid has no military experience but worked for the Capitol Police Department from 1961 to 1964 while he was at law school. Durbin has no military or law enforcement experience.

Answer 3

I find it amazing that the Idiot that is Harry Reid called Petraeus incompetent. Petraeus wrote the field manual on counterinsurgency, his strategy has worked militarily in ever situation it has been used(damn rumsfeld), and he had taken control of our operations in Iraq for less than a couple months before Reid in all of his infinite wisdom called him incompetent. It really infuriates me, we get a really good general in charge of things(finally) and an idiot like this has the nerve to say something like that. If General Petraeus had been in charge three years ago we would not be in this situation.

Answer 4

Everything Reid and Durbin say is politically motivated and I don't believe either one. The General has reasons to slant the truth, but would have a much tougher time lying with so many people back in Iraq who know the truth. I'd believe the General before I would a politician (of either party.)

Answer 5

Petraeus... hands down, no argument... hes a military expert...
Durbin and Reid on the other hand are anti-military defeatists, and are part of the reason why Congress has an all time low poll rating.... that kind of resume does not impress me, in fact, their rants I find particularly offensive.

Answer 6

Ret, it won't matter. Too many liberidiots have no respect for our military, period. Gen. Petraeus is a damned good man, and we are very fortunate to have him. All these negative arm-chair generals are too blinded by their Bush Derangement Syndrome to see past it.

Answer 7

Actually, I'd be more inclined to believe them than GW Bush, Bill Clinton, Dick "I had better things to do during the Vietnam war" Cheney & Rumsfeld, who didn't serve any military time (and Bush's so called National Guard experience doesnt count)

Answer 8

Bush is using Petraeus as his sock puppet. Considering Bush hasn't "heard a shot fired in anger" either, and that's he's been consistently wrong about everything he's said, there's no use giving any credibility to this charade.

You don't have to listen to Durbin or Reid. Look at the number of attacks going up and look at the fact that 11 of the 18 benchmarks for the Surge have not been met. If you ignore the facts than you're just shoving your head in the sand. I don't want another soldier killed in pursuit of this failed strategy in this senseless war.

Answer 9

I listen to David Petraeus. He is the one in the know.

Answer 10

What is sickning politics is the spin that Bush is putting on the war!

I guess the report being submitted to congress directly contradicts Bush and Patreas!

I would not believe a General appointed by Bush anymore than I would believe another lie from Bush!

WASHINGTON (AFP) - The Bush administration Thursday rejected a bleak draft survey by a government auditor on political and military advances in Iraq,
saying it set criteria for judging progress far too high.

The White House and State Department hit back after leaks emerged of a report by the Government Accountability Office (GAO), saying Iraq had failed to meet all but three of 18 benchmarks laid down by Congress.

The report emerged at a vital moment of the Iraq war debate, as the White House and anti-war Democrats crank up political heat ahead of a showdown over President George W. Bush's troop surge strategy in Congress next month.
White House deputy spokeswoman Dana Perino took pains to differentiate the GAO survey from the president's own report on the 30,000-strong troop hike in Iraq,
which he must provide to Congress by September 15.
"The president must report on whether or not the Iraqis are making significant progress towards achieving the benchmarks in Iraq," Perino told reporters.
"The GAO ... is asked by Congress to say whether or not they have met them," she said, adding that the "bar was set so high" it was all but impossible for the Iraqis to meet the standards. (BS!)

The Iraqi government is in shambles and they are talking about firing the entire police force as they are often political!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Bg1yY9rVGM