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I thought the ad was disgusting
Posted by Raven on September 20th, 2007
This is the kind of thing that makes me love President Bush:
The president was responding to a question about an advertisement run last week by the liberal advocacy group MoveOn.org, which suggested Multinational Forces in Iraq commander Gen. David Petraeus was falsifying information about the war, under a bold headline, “General Petraeus or General Betray Us?”
“I thought the ad was disgusting,” Bush told reporters in the White House briefing room.
“I was disappointed that not more leaders in the Democrat party spoke out strongly against that kind of ad, and that leads me to come to this kind of conclusion: That most Democrats are afraid of irritating a left-wing group like MoveOn.org — are more afraid of irritating them — than they are of irritating the United States military. That was a sorry deal,” the president said.
He speaks it like it IS. And in this instance he put aside the polite politics of it all and just spoke his mind:
“And (it’s) one thing to attack me. It’s another thing to attack somebody like Gen. Petraeus,” Bush said.
I miss the President Bush who would stand up to these assholes and put them in their place. I really do.
The next headline I read this afternoon:
WASHINGTON (AP) – The Senate voted Thursday to condemn an advertisement by the liberal anti-war group MoveOn.org that accused the top military commander in Iraq of betrayal.
The 72-25 vote condemned the full-page ad that appeared in The New York Times last week as Gen. David Petraeus, the top military commander in Iraq, testified on Capitol Hill. The ad was headlined: “General Petraeus or General Betray Us? Cooking the books for the White House.”
And take a wild guess at who, (among others) voted AGAINST THIS:
The resolution condemning the ad was sponsored by conservative Republican John Cornyn of Texas. Voting against it were Democratic presidential hopefuls Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton of New York and Christopher Dodd of Connecticut.
Chillary wants to be the Commander in Chief of the Armed Forces- yet she refuses to denounce an open and immature attack on one of our most experienced Generals. This shows what’s more important to her, and to Dodd. We can’t let her live this down.
September 20th, 2007 at 4:20 pm
The slithery one, just like her husband dislikes the military. That’s why she could not condemn the ad. And if she can’t condemn her puppetmasters, she sure as hell can’t lead this country. Her true colors are out there, she is now and always will be nothing more than an obedient follower. A lackey in every sense of the word. No courage, no integrity,and no ethics. But she is typical, a liberal democrat.
September 20th, 2007 at 4:31 pm
Hillary will be as well liked as C-in-C by the military as her husbands was.. if even that much….
September 20th, 2007 at 9:45 pm
uugh the thought of Chillary being in “control” of our armed forces makes me ill.
Just ill.
September 21st, 2007 at 4:53 am
Hi,
This General is an honorable man who has dedicated his life to OUR country and has the Bronze Star Medal for Valor
___
Gen. David H. Petraeus
Commanding General ~~ Multi-National Force – Iraq
General David H. Petraeus assumed command of the Multi-National Force-Iraq on February 10th, 2007, following his assignment as the Commanding General, U.S. Army Combined Arms Center and Fort Leavenworth. Prior to assuming command at Ft. Leavenworth, he was the first commander of the Multi-National Security Transition Command-Iraq, which he led from June 2004 to September 2005, and the NATO Training Mission- Iraq, which he commanded from October 2004 to September 2005.
That deployment to Iraq followed his command of the 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault), during which he led the “Screaming Eagles” in combat throughout the first year of Operation Iraqi Freedom. His command of the 101st followed a year deployed on Operation Joint Forge in Bosnia, where he was the Assistant Chief of Staff for Operations of the NATO Stabilization Force and the Deputy Commander of the US Joint Interagency Counter-Terrorism Task Force-Bosnia. Prior to his tour in Bosnia, he spent two years at Fort Bragg, North Carolina, serving first as the Assistant Division Commander for Operations of the 82nd Airborne Division and then as the Chief of Staff of XVIII Airborne Corps.
General Petraeus was commissioned in the Infantry upon graduation from the United States Military Academy in 1974. He has held leadership positions in airborne, mechanized, and air assault infantry units in Europe and the United States, including command of a battalion in the 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault) and a brigade in the 82nd Airborne Division. In addition, he has held a number of staff assignments: Aide to the Chief of Staff of the Army; battalion, brigade, and division operations officer; Military Assistant to the Supreme Allied Commander – Europe; Chief of Operations of the United Nations Force in Haiti; and Executive Assistant to the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
General Petraeus was the General George C. Marshall Award winner as the top graduate of the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College Class of 1983. He subsequently earned MPA and Ph.D. degrees in international relations from Princeton University’s Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, and later served as an Assistant Professor of International Relations at the US Military Academy. He also completed a fellowship at Georgetown University.
Awards and decorations earned by General Petraeus include the Defense Distinguished Service Medal, two awards of the Distinguished Service Medal, two awards of the Defense Superior Service Medal, four awards of the Legion of Merit, the Bronze Star Medal for valor, the State Department Superior Honor Award, the NATO Meritorious Service Medal, and the Gold Award of the Iraqi Order of the Date Palm.
He is a Master Parachutist and is Air Assault and Ranger qualified. He has also earned the Combat Action Badge and French, British, and German Jump Wings.
In 2005 he was recognized by the U.S. News and World Report as one of America’s 25 Best Leaders.
LIAR…I do not think so.
Peace!
Steve
General David Betray Us
September 21st, 2007 at 1:27 pm
The overwhelmed are always emotional.
September 21st, 2007 at 1:55 pm
Those who excel at nothing and who have achieved even less, prefer to deny the accomplishments of others.
September 21st, 2007 at 2:18 pm
As usual, follow the money…
I say MoveOn should redouble their efforts. If the forces between which Hillary is trying to “triangulate” pull hard enough in their own directions…that would be a spectacle worth viewing, as it couldn’t happen to a worthier person (except perhaps her spouse).
September 22nd, 2007 at 1:01 pm
Don’t worry about Hillary. She is such a looser. Here is an article from AP:
Not only that, looks like Obama is really out of touch according to this report:
Today, for instance, [Obama] had to confront the modern supermarket.
Visiting the exhibition hall of the National Grocers Association convention here, Mr. Obama lingered at the mock-up of a checkout lane. He signed his name on an electronic pad used to detect check forgeries.
“If some guy came in and spelled Obama differently, could you catch it?” the senator asked. “Yes,” he was told, and he shook his head in wonder.
Then he grabbed a quart of milk, a light bulb and a bag of candy and ran them over an electronic scanner. The look of wonder flickered across his face again as he saw the item and price registered on the cash register screen.
“This is for checking out?” asked Mr. Obama. “I just took a tour through the exhibits here,” he told the grocers later. “Amazed by some of the technology.”
His spokesman assured reporters that he had seen the senator in a grocery store. A year or so ago. In Kennebunkport.
Some grocery stores began using electronic scanners as early as 1976, and the devices have been in general use in American supermarkets for a decade.
September 27th, 2007 at 8:49 am
U.S. Senate Roll Call Votes 110th Congress – 1st Session
as compiled through Senate LIS by the Senate Bill Clerk under the direction of the Secretary of the Senate
Question: On the Amendment (Cornyn Amdt. No. 2934 )
Statement of Purpose:
To express the sense of the Senate that General David H. Petraeus, Commanding General, Multi-National Force-Iraq, deserves the full support of the Senate and strongly condemn personal attacks on the honor and integrity of General Petraeus and all members of the United States Armed Forces…
I guess that doesn’t include the bashing of distinguished FORMER members of the US Armed Forces… like John Kerry, John McCain, Max Cleland…my my, they can dish it out, but they can’t take it.