Reid confirms Pace, Petraeus comments

[babylonsister]

http://thinkprogress.org/2007/06/14/reid-confirms-pace-petraeus-comments/

Reid confirms Pace, Petraeus comments.

“Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid confirmed Thursday that he told liberal bloggers week that he thinks outgoing Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Peter Pace is ‘incompetent.’”

Reid said he told Pace face-to-face recently that he had performed poorly as an adviser on the conduct of the Iraq war.

“I believe that General Pace would not be if he had come forward to be reappointed the chairman of the Joints Chiefs. It wouldn’t have happened and I’m not going to get into what I said or didn’t say. There is a long list of people including Senators (Carl) Levin and (Jack) Reed and others who have talked about General Pace long before I did. I think we should just drop it. The fact is, he’s not going to be the chairman of the Joint Chiefs, for which I’m happy,” Reid said. <…>

Reid ripped Petraeus for an interview published in Thursday’s USA Today describing progress in Iraq. … “I was a little disappointed, to say the least, today reading USA Today newspaper, where he’s saying things are going fine, kids are playing soccer. The truth is, you look at another newspaper and look at a different page of USA Today, the bloodiest three months of the war has been since the surge took place,” Reid said.

[JNelson6563]

1. Good!

It's high time Dems stood by their truthful remarks instead of retracting them!

:toast:

Julie

[NewJeffCT]

2. I hope we don't get a "Reid apologizes" Friday night news dump

I'd be very disappointed.

[babylonsister]

3. I'm still trying to wrap my head around the Dems caving on the

immigration bill; it's back on the table, and I'm not a happy camper. I SO don't want the blivet to win this round. I think the Congress needs to put it all back on the table and come up with something agreeable to everyone, and let them take their time.

[ananda]

6. Dems have caved on everything else..

.. so don't be surprised at anything they do.

Talk is cheap, anyway.

[blogslut]

4. Twisted into an attack on soldiers

by "The Politico" and spewed forth by Drudge.

Reid told Pace IN PERSON that he believed his management of the war was incompetent. Reid spoke of this encounter with bloggers in a conference call. "The Politico" proceeded to spin it on their front page:

"Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid called Marine Gen. Peter Pace, the outgoing chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, "incompetent" during an interview Tuesday with a group of liberal bloggers, a comment that was never reported..."

"The Politico" is just another wingnut spin factory.

[liberal N proud]

5. Harry Reid grows a spine?

Maybe he will get a taste of this responsibility thing and like it.

[lyonn]

8. Could be you are right, he is getting the feel of being leader of the Senate

Time will tell. Nothing the Dems have done lately has given me hope and that includes our presidential candidates.

[Ganja Ninja]

7. Don't back down Harry.

A general that's a spineless yes man is a danger to his troops and the country and derelict in his duty.