Thank You, MoveOn.org
With MoveOn.org's Petraeus ad, I thought at least someone was doing the job of telling the facts to the public's face without a load of doublespeak as camouflage.
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Nothing Petraeus Said Will Change How Americans View the War
Rep. John Murtha | Posted 09.17.2007 | Politics
When letters go unanswered, when suggestions go ignored, when the pleas of the public fall on deaf ears, how are the American people expected to continue to support flawed policies and undefined missions?
Air America's "7 Days" Podcast
Huff Radio | Posted 09.15.2007 | Politics
Listen to Arianna Huffington & Mark Green discuss Petraeus' testimony and the response to it on this week's broadcast of Air America's weekly show, 7 Days in America.
Military Families: Bush/Petraeus "Drawdown" Is Pure Politics
Newsweek | Posted 09.15.2007 | Politics
In endorsing Gen. David Petraeus's recommendations on Iraq, President George W. Bush said Thursday night that at least 21,500 U.S. combat forces, plus...
Excuse Me, General. We Missed A Question
Kathleen Reardon | Posted 09.15.2007 | Politics
What about "on the ground" suffering in Iraq? Is it unpatriotic to want to know what's happening to vulnerable people who have nothing against us? Like the ones who can't find water or the little children on the streets?
After Petraeus, Conciliation: The Report Must Not Derail a Moderate Democratic Strategy
Doug Schoen | Posted 09.14.2007 | Politics
If the Democrats are serious about winning in Iraq, building their majority, and taking the White House, they will "stay the course" -- the moderate course of the past few weeks, that is.
General Petraeus, Take Off the Rose-Colored Glasses
Sen. Barbara Boxer | Posted 09.14.2007 | Politics
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We are sending our troops into a country where they're not wanted, into the middle of a civil war, into the middle of the mother of all foreign policy mistakes, with no end in sight.
Brian Williams Calls Out Petraeus on Al Qaeda Fearmongering
Huffington Post | Rachel Sklar | Posted 09.14.2007 | Media
This week has been marked by two big news events: The Petraeus hearings in Washington, and the sixth anniversary of 9/11. It is probably safe to say t...
Where in the World is Admiral Fallon?
Cenk Uygur | Posted 09.13.2007 | Politics
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Does Bush not want to hear from Admiral Fallon? Doesn't he care what his top commander thinks? Or is it that he has already heard from Fallon and wants to make sure we don't hear from him?
Stop Attacking Petraeus!
Martin Lewis | Posted 09.13.2007 | Politics
Instead of belittling General David Petraeus and insulting him -- we should be showing him HUGE respect. Look at his military biography. Though he g...
The One Term President Conspiracy
Richard Klass | Posted 09.13.2007 | Politics
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The domestic objective of President Bush's strategy in Iraq is to ensure that the next president -- presumably a Democrat -- is a one-term president.
General Petraeus Wins the TV War in a Rout
Margaret Carlson | Posted 09.13.2007 | Politics
In a back-and-forth reminiscent of the Verizon man's "Can you hear me now?'' commercial, the technical difficulties ate up a 15-minute recess. Score the general 1, Congress 0.
In Defense of MoveOn -- No More Arrows in the Back
Jane Hamsher | Posted 09.13.2007 | Politics
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The MoveOn ad said what Democrats could not and survive politically. And it traveled. To join with the right and start firing arrows into their backs is both destructive and displays tremendous naiveté.
Two Cheers for Two Republicans (One Apiece)
Frank Dwyer | Posted 09.12.2007 | Politics
Spymaster McConnell admitted he misled Congress? And General Petraeus admitted he doesn't know if the surge has made us safer? What's wrong with these guys?
Is the 'Insurge' Working?
RJ Eskow | Posted 09.12.2007 | Media
Most Americans want us out of Iraq, and so do most Iraqis. But we have a Washington elite of politicians, think-tankers, and journalists that finds the will of the people somehow ... distasteful.
One Way Out
Eric Alterman | Posted 09.12.2007 | Politics
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It's hard both to believe and to stomach the reaction to the Petraeus report (as well as to the MoveOn.org advertisement). It's as if the MSM players ...
Ambassador Crocker: "Baghdad's Never Looked So Good"
CNN | Posted 09.12.2007 | Politics
Highlighted Excerpts On why he's eager to return to Iraq after his Congressional testimony CROCKER: It's all part of American democracy, but Baghdad...
Bush-Petraeus Contradicts Baker-Hamilton
Ned Lamont | Posted 09.12.2007 | Politics
Thank you General Petraeus for your military analysis of the ground game, but it's time to pressure Congress to pass a timeline to end America's combat operations in Iraq.
The General Lies
Robert Scheer | Posted 09.12.2007 | Politics
Once again, we have a general repeatedly promising to save Western civilization by turning the corner in yet another intractable and unnecessary foreign war.
What If No One's Watching?
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 09.12.2007 | Media
It fell to The Daily Show to take up the question as to whether Petraeus' testimony was truly the product of an independent observer.
Haven't We Already Seen This Movie?
Byron Williams | Posted 09.11.2007 | Politics
It is time to add the president's vaunted "surge" to the dubious list of cinematic flops that were unable to come close to recouping the production cost, let alone turn a profit.
Petraeus Admits "I Don't Know" If White House Plan on Iraq Makes America Safer
Jon Soltz | Posted 09.11.2007 | Politics
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General Petraeus has a very limited area of concern -- the US military in Iraq -- and his testimony today reflected that. When one looks at the grander scale, the picture is dismal.
Questions to the General and Some Answers to His Rhetoric
Carl M. Baxley Jr. | Posted 09.11.2007 | Politics
Why haven't any of our illustrious elected officials asked some rather obvious questions of the general? Here are just a few of my recommendations.
Reading The Pictures: General Impressions
Michael Shaw | Posted 09.11.2007 | Media
Making a small crack in the hero worship this week, the Army Times -- of all people -- offered up a myth- questioning set of visual portraits.
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