After six hours of sheer boredom listening to testimony, this is all I need to know about Petraeus:
Excerpt from Brit Hume’s exclusive interview with General David Petraeus, Fox News, 10 September 2007:
HUME: Would you say that we wouldn't be in the situation we are in today in terms of sectarian violence in Iraq generally had not al Qaeda been present and active there?
PETRAEUS: That's correct. That is correct.
HUME: Has this, in an ultimate sense, turned out to be more than anything else, a war with al Qaeda?
PETRAEUS: Well, it is al Qaeda and associated movements, I think, or affiliates, if you will, because again the insurgents, until they started flipping more and more certainly throughout the Euphrates river valley and now other areas, certainly were associated with al Qaeda, at the very least turning a blind eye to them, and at the most in many cases aiding and abetting them.
HUME: What is the great reward for this undertaking? What, briefly, General, is the payoff here?
PETRAEUS: Well, I think an enormous payoff is the fact we may be able to defeat al Qaeda. Al Qaeda Central, if you will, does regard Iraq as the central front in its war of terror. Our overall commander who prosecutes the global war on terror ... regards that as the central front. And, so this would frankly be an enormous blow to al Qaeda if we were to defeat al Qaeda in Iraq. The converse of that would be really a huge lift for al Qaeda and really a shot of adrenaline to them.
-END-
And, there you have the Party line. Unbelievable.
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5 comments:
"The converse of that would be really a huge lift for al Qaeda and really a shot of adrenaline to them."
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Yep.
Petraeus failed to mention that there was no al Qaeda in Iraq before the USA illegal invasion of Iraq. So much more human tragedy due to "man's inhumanity to man."
Anonymous:
Go back and read Brit Hume's initial question to Petraeus. The question is crafted to imply al Qaeda was in Iraq before we invaded and is responsible for the sectarian violence there, and Petraeus agrees.
We know al Qaeda was not in Iraq BEFORE we invaded. We know al Qaeda makes up only about 5 percent of the violence there. We know that our presence in Iraq - on Muslim ground - has been a recruiting tool for al Qaeda worldwide.
We know the history of the schism between Sunni and Shia.
Apparently, Fox News' viewers don't know any of this, so Hume feels free to attribute the problems in Iraq to al Qaeda.
Petraeus reported to the senate that there is NO connection between Iraq and 9/11, yet he grants Fox News an "exclusive" interview and empowers Brit Hume to pertuate the myth.
That's all I need to know about General Petraeus.
BJ
So, the idea is that the Americans use the world as their playing field for whatever they want to conquer, therefore, accomplish. I'm wondering where the phrase "Ugly Americans" went. My scope is too small to understand how it is gotten away with when it involves so many people, so many countries--all in the eyes of the world. No one wants to see one's own country under fire or taken over. But in the back of my mind I think there would be a grim satisfaction to seeing America called to the world courts, America stopped. I don't think I will see that. Eowyn
"I don't know. . ." ==David Petraeus, in response to the second airing of the same question to him from Senator John Warner (R-VA)== "Is America safer?"
Tell that to 3700 dead kids, and their parents, and the people who told you not to go in the first place.
Frodo sincerely hopes that pustules break out on the skin of George W.Bush. 3700 seems like a nice round figure.
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