Sen. Whitehouse: Petraeus Has ‘Conflicting Loyalty,’ Independent Iraq Report Needed

[Hissyspit]

http://thinkprogress.org/2007/06/08/whitehouse-petraeus

Sen. Whitehouse: Petraeus Has ‘Conflicting Loyalty,’ Independent Iraq Report Needed

Many members of Congress have rallied behind a September deadline to reassess President Bush’s Iraq strategy, saying they will rely on a report from Gen. David Petraeus to determine whether escalation has been effective.

But despite numerous indicators that Bush’s strategy is failing, ABC News reported recently that Petraeus wants the “surge” to “continue until at least December,” and expects “to report enough progress by September to justify the extension.”

In an interview this week with ThinkProgress, Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) became the first member of Congress to call for an independent analysis on the state of the war in September, in addition to Petraeus’ report. Whitehouse charged that Petraeus has an inherent “conflicting loyalty” between “the desire to please the president” and to report the unvarnished truth about Bush’s strategy.

“How General Petraeus chooses to balance those conflicting prerogatives is up to him and his conscience and I’m hoping and expecting that he’ll come back and speak very candidly to us,” Whitehouse said. But noting President Reagan’s maxim “trust but verify,” he added, “I don’t think it’s necessarily to distrust Petraeus to want to verify.”

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[flyarm]

1. K&R...“trust but verify,”

“trust but verify,” ..i do not trust any of these generals any more..they seem to give a shit more about their career than their soldiers!!
examples..Franks, Pace, Abizaid,Casey..now this clown...who is a butt sniffer if i ever heard one!!


When the Nazis did this crap to Poland like Bush is doing to Iraq, all the generals were tried as war criminals, merely because of their participation ...

all our good honest Generals resigned!!

I believe the Joint Chiefs said the surge would not work..but they were ignored!!


“trust but verify,” all these bastards!!

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[sallyseven]

2. Whitehouse (D) from RI

will be a great senator. Much better than Chaffee. I am so happy he won.

[babylonsister]

3. Rec'd! Whitehouse is correct! nt

[Jim__]

4. It's great that Whitehouse points out Petraeus' conflict of interest.

We know that our sterling press will never point it out.

[coco77]

5. I can agree with that..

seems as though every general that goes over there is afraid to tell the truth about what is really going on...

[Hissyspit]

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