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2008-01-04 Home Front: WoT

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Posted by Matt 2008-01-04 00:00|| || Front Page|| [4 views ] Top
File under: Iraqi Insurgency

#1 I'd support Petraeus for President if it wouldn't be a waste of such a damn fine general.

Yes, but great commanders know how to surround themselves with talent. It appears the 'call back' for the promotion board was such a event. A good man can put his business in order. A greater man is one who can leave it to work just as effectively in someone else's hands.

Desperate, they become more cruel.

Must've taken a page from the Clinton operative handbook.

he explained in a video to his own followers that it was because America was a paper tiger too afraid to take casualties...

Not afraid, just cost effective oriented. OBL just raised the stakes were it became cost effective. In democracy [note well the small 'd'], we value our fellow productive constructive contributory citizens and do not lightly believe in throwing their lives and futures away for things that dictators and autocrats think nothing about. You, OBL, confuse that respect for weakness while throwing away tens of thousands of your own submissives for whom you have no value. Our boys live to fight another day, as veterans who use their experience and tuned skills ever more effectively.

Posted by Procopius2k 2008-01-04 07:54|| 2008-01-04 07:54|| Front Page Top

#2 Hopin Gen Petraus can get Col McMaster his well deserved star.

Passing McMaster over twice is political horseshit at its worst in the pentagon. McMaster understood how to win but made the previous generals look bad by showing them to be incompetebt while Col MacMaster did it his own way and won in Anbar.

Posted by OldSpook 2008-01-04 14:33|| 2008-01-04 14:33|| Front Page Top

#3 Petraeus is just squared away.

Posted by newc">newc 2008-01-04 14:46|| 2008-01-04 14:46|| Front Page Top

#4 Nasty thought: what if a Democrat wins the White House? What will be Petraeus's fate?

And what will happen to the list of officers Petraeus selects for promotion once Congress gets hold of it? Will the approve it, or shitcan it?

Posted by Rob Crawford">Rob Crawford 2008-01-04 17:33|| 2008-01-04 17:33|| Front Page Top

#5 Then it's time to start the: "The Democrats couldn't make them lose, so they'll make the quit/retire" meme? I would think that might cause some donk assholes (repetitious..... granted) to pucker

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2008-01-04 19:16|| 2008-01-04 19:16|| Front Page Top

#6 We've had at least one great General who became President, Eisenhower, (I suppose I should include Grant, but I'm Southern, so just a wee bit prejudiced.)

Posted by Redneck Jim 2008-01-04 21:42|| 2008-01-04 21:42|| Front Page Top

#7 Oh Redneck Jim! - Ike was likely the better POTUS, with Grant being the better General, but dare I mention you-know-who who had a far more extensive non-military career than both, but listed several ifs to becoming chief executive?

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