General Petraeus is now General Betray Us?

I know that Democrats are mentally challenged, especially when it comes to remembering their own action and words, but this new pre-emptive attack strategy by Democrats is beneath contempt. Once again, Democrats are proving themselves to be duplicitous by nature, incapable of telling the truth or of staying the course they themselves have set.

In January of this year, in spite of some misgivings on their part, General Petraeus was approved on a bipartisan vote of 81-0. That's right folks, not a single Democrat had the guts to oppose this new strategy. Even though Democrats hold a majority in the Senate and could easily have blocked General Peteaus' appointment. They didn't. Why? Because they are gutless, spineless opportunists who are more concerned with their public image than they are with the nation's security or with doing what is right.

From USinfo.State.gov comes the following:

President Bush, at the White House, praised the swift Senate action in confirming Petraeus, who will be promoted to general with this appointment.

"The Senate confirmed this good man without a dissenting vote. I appreciate the quick action of the United States Senate. I appreciate them giving General David Petraeus a fair hearing, and I appreciate the vote," Bush said. "My instructions to the general [are] ‘Get over to the zone as quickly as possible and implement a plan that we believe will yield our goals.’"

Petraeus, a graduate of the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, also holds a doctorate from Princeton University. He commanded the 101st Airborne Division during Operation Iraqi Freedom in March 2003 and served as commander of the training program for the Iraqi army in 2004 and 2005. Most recently, while stationed at Fort Leavenworth, he helped write the latest counterinsurgency manual for U.S. ground forces.

Those same folks who are impugning General Patraeus' objectivity and ability are the same folks who, given plenty of time to examine him chose to either sit in silence, refusing to vote (this is usually described as cowardice), or chose to vote to approve both his appointment and his plan.

I heard none of these same people who are now preemptively attacking General Patraeus' reputation object to the praise they gracelessly received from the President. They are cowards who, like the arrogant Liberals they are, were certain that the troop surge would be a failure, but failed to openly oppose the surge out of fear of a public backlash. Thus proving once again that the Democrats were pursuing a political strategy, not a strategy based upon national interests. Of course that is what has always been the attitude of the Democrat Party over the past six decades, how can we win the election, not how can we win the war?

Now, as general Petraeus' report is about to be made, and clear military progress (and some small political progress) is being made due to the shift in strategy, the Democrats are scurrying to revise their strategy to counter what is certain to be a mixed, but ultimately positive, report.

Now this general, who was given solid support from both sides of the aisle, is now being attacked as a generally partisan hack who will say whatever President Bush tells him to say. As usual, when Liberals are losing the argument, they resort to personal attack.

Even worse than this duplicity, is the flip-flop of some of those who, after going over to Iraq and seen the progress being made in places like Anbar Province-and so stating in no uncertain terms-are now, strictly out of political motivation altering their assessments.

One of these weasels comes immediately to mind; Senator Dick "Dastardly" Durbin. While Dick Dastardly was in Iraq mugging for the cameras and lying to the troops about how much he cares about them, both Durbin and Casey stated that they had seen clear progress on the ground and that our troops are now in areas in which they had never been before. Let's hear them say so from their own mouths:


Now, lest I be charged by such an august bastion of objectivity as Media Matters (the George Soros funded, Hillary Clinton started Democrat shill operation) of attempting to misrepresent what Durbin said, I will quote from their own transcript on their own webpage:

DURBIN: There are two important parts to this story: the military part -- as Senator Casey said, where men and women are doing their best and making real progress. We found that today as we went to a forward base in an area that for -- in the fifth year of the war, it's the first time that we're putting troops on the ground to intercept Al Qaeda. But I have to tell you there's another side to this story that the Brookings Institution shouldn't miss. As we are seeing military progress, the political scene is very discouraging. We have seen this al-Maliki government, which was once branded a government of national unity, coming apart. We see Shias leaving, Sunnis walking out. It's not the kind of promise that we want in terms of bringing stability to this country.

Well Dick, that's great to hear. You know there is an old saying: "Everything you say after 'but' is BS."

So in effect what Dick Dastardly is saying is "Yes we're seeing real measurable progress here in what the military is accomplishing, unprecedented progress, real and certain not- what we were hoping to find, but that isn't what we want you to focus on. We want to assure you that, just like we told you, this surge has been a complete failure."

But now that he is back from Iraq and General Patraeus is about to report, he has changed his tune:

September 7, 2007
Durbin: Iraq report 'manipulated'
Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Illinois.
WASHINGTON (CNN) — Days before Gen. David Petraeus testifies before Congress on the progress of the troop "surge" in Iraq, the Senate's number two Democrat is accusing the administration of manipulating information in its highly anticipated Iraq report that will be released next week.

"By carefully manipulating the statistics, the Bush-Petraeus report will try to persuade us that violence in Iraq is decreasing and thus the surge is working," Sen. Dick Durbin of Illinois said at a Washington think tank.

Durbin, a war critic, said that for a long period of time he has exchanged e-mail with civilian employees who were gathering data for the report and writing draft portions of the findings.

"Some of them I correspond with almost on a daily basis. And when they sent a discouraging report about things that were happening in Baghdad, they were reminded by their superiors that's unacceptable; we need a positive report. They were sent back for editing changes. Now that's a fact," Durbin said.

No Dick, that's hearsay, not fact. Fact is when you have some physical proof, not simply letters of complaint by disaffected employees who were caught attempting to insert their opinions into the reports (and who are also probably Democrat party sympathizers). So if you don't mind Dicky, stick to the facts, as you know them. You remember just like the "fact" that the surge is succeeding...hint: see your above interview on CNN.

The fact remains that we are experiencing unprecedented successes on the ground, militarily. We have Sunnis who were once fighting with al Qaeda, now fighting alongside our troops and providing them with valuable intelligence. Is everything perfect? No, and I wouldn't have expected it to be. Just as I don't expect truth from the lips of a Democrat political hack like you.

The entire concept behind the troop surge was to provide the Maliki government "breathing room" so that they could begin to take control. The entire compliment of troops which comprised the surge weren't even in theater until the end of June, yet they have made phenomenal progress on the ground.

What you and your "Robo-Democrats" fear most is that we will now begin to see some real political progress because the members of the government have been able to visit their constituents and hear what they are saying...kind of like what you in the United States Congress did this August.

For the first time the people of Anbar province and other areas in Iraq are beginning to have a taste of what life without fear is like, and that is the Democrat's worst nightmare.

As for maintaining a presence in Iraq at least until the next spring, something that you lying, weasely, Democrats just can't stand, let me simply repeat a simple statement...no promise; promise which was made to the American people some time ago by another President. That President promised the American people that we would maintain our deployment "no longer than six months." That promise was then amended to, "Our troops will be out by December." Those statements promises were made by President William J. "Bubba" Clinton in 1994 as he began sending our troops into Bosnia.

Yet mysteriously the troops were still there in 2004 as the Washington Post famously reported in this article:

U.S. Troops Mark End Of Mission In Bosnia
Associated Press
Thursday, November 25, 2004; Page A19

TUZLA, Bosnia, Nov. 24 -- U.S. troops marked the end of their nine-year peacekeeping role in Bosnia on Wednesday as NATO prepared to hand over the task to the European Union in December.

A small number of U.S. troops will stay in Bosnia to hunt war crime suspects and help the country reform its military.

"This ceremony officially marks mission complete and mission accomplished," Gen. B.B. Bell, commander of U.S. Army, Europe, said in a ceremony at Eagle Base in Tuzla, where most of the U.S. troops in Bosnia have been based.

Even more embarrassing to Democrats is the fact that the "small number of troops" that stayed in Bosnia are still there making their "six month" stay now about twelve years. Oops! I guess you Democrat hacks forgot they were even there (those pesky little details, you know, they can really be a problem).

Though the Democrat liars (yeah I know that's redundant) would have you believe that we have been in Iraq for decades, the invasion began in March of 2003. We are just now marking the four and one-half year mark in our presence in Iraq. I guess that means that Harry "Sniveling Whiplash" Reid, Barbara Boxenstein, and Dick "Dastardly" Durbin owe the American people another four and one-half years of full presence in Iraq before we "officially announce" our end of mission, and then an indefinitely remaining presence of a "small contingent of forces."

Isn't it odd how rarely we hear the remaining presence of our troops in Bosnia from the mainstream press or from the mouths of these Democrats who seem so concerned with our continued deployment in Iraq?

President Clinton knowingly lied to the American people when he promised that our troops would be out of Bosnia in "six months" ( I know it must come as a shock to you readers out there that President Clinton would lie to the American people...depending, of course, on what the meaning of is, is).

By contrast, President Bush has never made any effort to deceive the American people. Before the war in Iraq began he warned us over and over again that this would be a very long and protracted conflict. He warned us that the war against global terrorism would be a matter of decades, not of months.

The infamously distorted celebration which took place on the deck of the Aircraft Carrier U.S.S. Lincoln was not, as the liars in the Democrat propaganda machine have stated, a declaration of victory in Iraq. Far from it, President Bush was celebrating what was the truth, the successful end of the Lincoln's deployment (mission) and while overly optimistic in his later declaration of "the end of major combat operations" (also technically true, as Baghdad had fallen to our control), it was not a declaration of victory.

The President was quite clear in what he meant in his later speech made from the deck of the Lincoln:

We have difficult work to do in Iraq. We're bringing order to parts of that country that remain dangerous. We're pursuing and finding leaders of the old regime who will be held to account for their crimes. We've begun the search for hidden chemical and biological weapons, and already know of hundreds of sites that will be investigated.

We are helping to rebuild Iraq where the dictator built palaces for himself instead of hospitals and schools.

And we will stand with the new leaders of Iraq as they establish a government of, by and for the Iraqi people.

The transition from dictatorship to democracy will take time, but it is worth every effort. Our coalition will stay until our work is done and then we will leave and we will leave behind a free Iraq.

The battle of Iraq is one victory in a war on terror that began on September the 11th, 2001 and still goes on.

Nowhere did he declare that we had finished the job. President Bush and Donald Rumsfeld were guilty of underestimating the aftermath of major combat operations and the ensuing chaos. They were also guilty of underestimating the manpower necessary to maintain and subdue a restless population which had not known freedom in more than a generation. What they are not guilty of is misleading the American people in either the mission as it was planned, or the reasons for our going to Iraq in the first place.

None of this is difficult to find out, all one has to do is be willing to examine the facts rather than rely on the propaganda being put out by the Bush-haters and the Democrat Party machine. Opinions never replace facts and unfortunately Liberals are very good at believing their opinions over the facts.

MoveOn.org is now calling General Petraeus, "General Betray Us," in anticipation of his report to Congress due tomorrow. They do this not because they have any facts to back their accusations up, they do it because they do not want to hear what they fear they will hear, an honest, objective, and mixed but positive report that real progress is being made in Iraq and that any move now to withdraw the troops would be premature.

Democrats (and that includes the so-called non-partisan MoveOn.org, People for the American Way, and all the other Democrat shill groups) cannot afford for America to win this war. They have invested their entire political capital on Iraq being a failure. They are doing their utmost to make sure that it is a failure, including compromising our troops morale and safety for their shallow political ambitions.

I am not particularly inclined to be charitable toward the Democrat Party Leadership because I see them for what they are, un-patriotic, subversive, and enemy sympathizers. I see their words being thrown back at the American people in propaganda tapes recorded by our enemies. I hear their plaintive cries for surrender, and I hear their hateful, dishonest denigration of our troops' capabilities and our general's integrity.

Those weasels, who defame General Petraeus as a Bush patsy, or Bush's man, haven't the guts to say it to his face. Instead they impugn his reputation obliquely and through their proxies in the press and the NGO's like those sham "non-partisan" organizations mentioned before.

Why don't some of those who accuse the good general of being Bush's "best boy" go down to the local parking lot and tell him that to his face...on second thought probably wouldn't be a good idea, the MSM would rewrite the whole incident to show that General Petraeus was a loose cannon and shouldn't be trusted...but it would be a wonderful sight to see, some of those gutless low-life Hollywood types who like to play big hero types in movies and then snipe from behind the protection of the First Amendment, getting their tails kicked by the real deal.

One is allowed to daydream on occassion.

For most of the Democrats in Congress this appearance on the Hill tomorrow is pretty much scripted from the get go. They have already decided that they will not take "yes" for an answer. If Patraeus' report says what many expect it to say, namely that we should continue to stay the course at least until late spring of next year, expect the Democrat traitors to attack the good General in every way they can, with all the cunning they can muster so as not to be seen a being disrespectful while they are being disrespectful, insulting while they are insulting him, and twisting his words as they proceed to twist his words.

The Democrats have detected the change in momentum toward the President's side as far as the public's expectations in this war. The truth is beginning to get out and people are beginning to question the Liberal dogma which has been passing for truth over the past several months.

I expect tomorrow's appearance to be very entertaining...and quite irritating as we watch the Democrats and RINO's ask their insincere and patronizing questions while mugging for the cameras.

Politics makes for great entertainment.

Long Live Our American Republic!!!

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