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2008-09-16 Iraq

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Posted by tu3031 2008-09-16 11:52|| || Front Page|| [2 views ] Top

#1 Petraeus will go down in history alongside Sir Gerald Templer as the two greatest counterinsurgency leaders in the past century.

Remember though that even though Templer broke the Malayan Communists, it still took another eight years of mopup before it was finally over.

Posted by Jolutch Mussolini7800 2008-09-16 12:04|| 2008-09-16 12:04|| Front Page Top

#2 Job well done, sir.

Posted by Whiskey Mike 2008-09-16 12:28|| 2008-09-16 12:28|| Front Page Top

#3 We are lucky as hell to have leaders like Gen. David Petraeus.

He used a military Strategic Jujitsu on a whole bunch of NASTY people and problems.

Posted by Red Dawg ">Red Dawg 2008-09-16 13:18|| 2008-09-16 13:18|| Front Page Top

#4 Are you talkin bout the donks in Congress?

Posted by Nimble Spemble 2008-09-16 13:19|| 2008-09-16 13:19|| Front Page Top

#5 Job unbelievablly well done!

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2008-09-16 13:24|| 2008-09-16 13:24|| Front Page Top

#6 I was honored to get to shake his hand and have my photo taken with him in Taji about a month ago.

He takes counter-insurgency (COIN) so seriously that it was said that he visited every new COIN class at the Phoenix Academy in Taji.

We will miss him.

Posted by Dreadnought 2008-09-16 13:32|| 2008-09-16 13:32|| Front Page Top

#7 He is one for the ages.

Posted by xbalanke 2008-09-16 13:37|| 2008-09-16 13:37|| Front Page Top

#8 #4 Are you talkin bout the donks in Congress? ROLF! Yep especialy those shitsticks NS!LOL You made me spill my coffee!

He did one fine job on those assholes too NS!
I consider him a Genius who is walking with God or with Lady Luck!
~:)

Posted by Red Dawg ">Red Dawg 2008-09-16 13:52|| 2008-09-16 13:52|| Front Page Top

#9 walking with God or with Lady Luck!

I don't care who he walks with. Just send a case of them to each general in the army.

Posted by Nimble Spemble 2008-09-16 14:05|| 2008-09-16 14:05|| Front Page Top

#10 For a short time, he will be in the cat-bird's seat. The big question is where does he go from here? He will probably be very quiet until election day. But after that decision, he will write his own destiny.

Posted by Anonymoose 2008-09-16 14:16|| 2008-09-16 14:16|| Front Page Top

#11 If he's smart, he'll find a way to declare victory and withdraw. We've done all the good we can in Afghanistan. It is of no strategic value to us at all as far as I can see, and its cost is well in excess of whatever value can be imagined.

Posted by Nimble Spemble 2008-09-16 14:33|| 2008-09-16 14:33|| Front Page Top

#12 They make Odierno sound more like a politician than a soldier. Dunno if that's true or fair or not. But if it is we certainly have Petraeus to thank for creating the kind of environment where the skills of a politician are more in demand that those of a soldier.

Posted by Ebbang Uluque6305 2008-09-16 15:56|| 2008-09-16 15:56|| Front Page Top

#13 Odierno sound more like a politician than a soldier

By the time you get above Colonel you have to be more like a politician than a soldier. Just like in big business general managers and VPs are more politicians than anything else.

Posted by Glenmore">Glenmore 2008-09-16 19:22|| 2008-09-16 19:22|| Front Page Top

#14 crap, I'm an engineering Project Manager (for a while longer) in a major municipality, and I have been more politician than engineer in the last year. Another reason I'm grinning from ear-to-ear with the change....

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2008-09-16 20:07|| 2008-09-16 20:07|| Front Page Top

#15 And, w/r/t Commodore Frank, he is responsible for some major bridges in his town, and NONE of them go to Nowhere. They all go to Somewhere.

I am a civil engineer, and I support this message.

Posted by Alaska Paul in Tok, AK 2008-09-16 21:48|| 2008-09-16 21:48|| Front Page Top

#16 heh, thx AP

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2008-09-16 22:19|| 2008-09-16 22:19|| Front Page Top

#17 AP awarded laugh of the day ----

Posted by Sherry">Sherry 2008-09-16 23:32|| 2008-09-16 23:32|| Front Page Top

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