I like this video. I think no matter what your opinion is of the Iraq War and Politics behind it. Our troops deserve nothing but our support. Anyone one who does anything other than this, quite frankly, is un-American.
What strikes me, is how the person the introduced this, is like so no interested in handling the story. He can’t even smile when doing a report? Can you say Bias?
Cross Posted @ The American Nationalist News Service and Chuck’s Place
Philip Carter thinks so…
The Article: Petraeus Overplays His Hand (Via Intel Dump @ WaPo)
Except that in making this pitch, Petraeus and Crocker overplayed their hand. They overstated the threat posed by al-Qaeda in Iraq in an effort to justify the mission — a mindset that has generated a deeply flawed strategy. They also overplayed the surge’s success — downplaying or discounting factors that likely did more to create today’s improved security conditions. While their "Anaconda" strategy looks cool on a PowerPoint slide, it confuses the issues of control and influence, putting too much stock in America’s ability to engineer success in Iraq. And, perhaps most tellingly, the two men made the case for perseverance without placing Iraq in the context of vital U.S. national interests, offering only apocalyptic predictions of what would happen if we don’t stay the course.
Andrew Sullivan weighs in:
But that was their carefully prescribed task. I don’t fault them. They’re not responsible for overall strategy. At one point last year, I was worried that Petraeus was being used politically. I was wrong. He’s been a magnificent general, in a near-impossible situation. Ditto Crocker. Along with Patrick Fitzgerald, they strike me as among the most impressive public servants of our time.
Now that is a bit overstated, I think, Because I personally believe that General Patraeus is, in the Bush Administration’s eyes, a pawn. A Pawn in a Neo-Conservative chess game.
While I admire Patraeus for doing his job, I think he knows what he is doing. He’s keeping his head down, and doing his job, and when the President is out of office. He will write a book, that will basically indict his bosses. I could be wrong, but I think General Patraeus is holding his cards to his vest and will tell all, when it’s all over with.
Should be interesting indeed.
Others: Washington Post and SWJ Blog
You know, I always thought this Closet Lesbian woman was a feckless Bitch, and now I know it!
Quote:
The Iraqi
peoplegovernment is not worthy of the sacrifice of our troops or the cost that the war is having on our readiness and our economy. We need a New Direction in Iraq, but what General Petraeus and Ambassador Crocker offered today was many more years of the same.
……and Just what the hell is Worthy, Speaker? What is?
A War started by YOUR Party?
Funding for your Aids carrying Homosexuals, that YOU represent?
This crap right here, is the reason why I refuse to align myself with that party!
Why didn’t she just say that the Iraqi PEOPLE weren’t worth the sacrifice?!?!?!
I’m sorry, but Democrats hate America man… I’m really wondering now, who I am going to vote for.
Sure, I know Bush put us into this War, I know this, But is it so wrong to want to fix what we broke? Is it so wrong to want to exercise some personal responsibility? 
But then again, we are talking about the feckless Liberals, like the Government we have here in Michigan.
Others: BLACKFIVE
A good Book:
Oy….
Why can’t people just endorse the guy, and keep their opinions to themselves?
I really didn’t want to Blog about this, because everyone else and their uncle is. plus, there’s so, much partisan nonsense involved with this.
I just don’t think this issue should be treated Politically, Liberal or Conservative.
Having said that, go read the stories from various news agencies and Bloggers.
Unlike some in the Blogging community, who think we should just turn tail and run, without finishing what we started. Well, I am not among that crowd.
The Article: U.S. death toll in Iraq hits 4,000 (via msnbc.com)
A roadside bomb killed four U.S. soldiers in Baghdad on Sunday, the military said, pushing the overall American death toll in the five-year war to at least 4,000.
The grim milestone came on the same day that rockets and mortars pounded the U.S.-protected Green Zone, underscoring the fragile security situation and the resilience of both Sunni and Shiite extremist groups despite an overall lull in violence.
A Multi-National Division — Baghdad soldier also was wounded in the roadside bombing, which struck the soldiers’ patrol vehicle about 10 p.m. in southern Baghdad, according to a statement.
4,000. That is now the new number of dead in Iraq, since the war started. It is indeed a sad reminder that freedom is not free and the, quite frankly, war is hell. 
However, I believe that if we leave Iraq, before the job is complete, before we fix what we broke, we will dearly pay for it later.
I realize, like many of my Liberal counterparts on the left and far left, that we did go into that country on some bad information. However, unlike them, I realize that we’ve been there too long now, and that country is leaning on us, for us to just walk away and leave them poor people holding the bag, would be tragic mistake of Biblical proportions.
I believe if we left Iraq too fast, it would become a death trap for those people, they need us. We are just now making headway, and if we don’t continue the path we are on, our nation will pay for it, one way or another.
Thoughts and Prayers go out tonight, on this 31 degree night here in the United States, to some very brave Men and Women, who are fighting, so we can have the freedom to blog, to argue, and just general be truly free.
God Bless our troops.
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