Is David Petraeus a 'Lying Liar' About the Drawdown?

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http://www.commondreams.org/view/2010/08/19-9

Is David Petraeus a 'Lying Liar' About the Drawdown?
by Robert Naiman
"Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them" was former non-Senator Al Franken's 2003 examination of the lies and distortions of right-wing pundits and politicians.

Such a book, if it were written today, should certainly include a fair and balanced look at some of the lying liars still running our foreign policy: in particular, at Mr. David Petraeus. (Mr. Franken might not be the best candidate for writing such a book today, given that he voted recently against Senator Feingold's amendment requiring the President to establish a timetable for military withdrawal from Afghanistan, even as Democratic leaders like Senator Durbin supported Feingold's amendment.)

Harsh words about Mr. Petraeus? Yes. Justified? Absolutely.

Consider: Mr. Petraeus has been leading a campaign of "domestic information operations" to browbeat Congress and the American people to accept limiting the size of, and possibly even a delay of, the drawdown of US troops from Afghanistan in July 2011that President Obama promised when he acceded to the military's demand for a "surge" of 30,000 troops in Afghanistan last fall.

In a recent interview with NBC's "Meet the Press," Petraeus implied that he might recommend against any withdrawal of US forces next summer, causing the White House to reaffirm its commitment to the July 2012 deadline in response, saying, "The date is not negotiable."

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[nashville_brook]

1. kickety

[msongs]

2. so who is REALLY the CIC in this government, Petraeus will lose his jobs without wars nt

[lib2DaBone]

3. Gen Patreus is going to run against Mr. Obama in 2012...

The NeoCons are already laying the groundwork. (And what is sick... Mr. Obama is HELPING them with the appointment of Frederick Kagan. (don't we love the 2-party system?)


Army Gen. David H. Petraeus, the newly appointed head of the international forces in the country, has hired two experts known for their strong emphasis on fighting corruption, Frederick Kagan and Brig. Gen. H.R. McMaster.


That's right; Frederick Kagan, the neocon architect of the Iraq "surge," the epitome of the armchair warriors who have sent thousands of human beings (including their fellow Americans) to needless death and plunged millions more into needless suffering, has been hired by the Peace Laureate Administration to serve as guide and counsel to the Laureate's newly appointed military supremo.

It goes without saying that Kagan -- yet another spawn of the Project for a New American Century, that gaggle of bloodthirsty Beltwayers who openly longed, in September 2000, for a "new Pearl Harbor" to scare the American public into supporting the group's hyper-militarist agenda -- is not an expert on "fighting corruption" or on Afghanistan, just as he knew nothing about Iraq. He is an "expert" on one topic only: churning out bullshit to justify war. And that is exactly why he has been hired by Obama and Petraeus.

[nashville_brook]

5. whoa. that would be totally messed up. a GOPer that Obama appointed turning against him!!

who'da thunk it?

[lib2DaBone]

4. Vote Republican you get War...... vote Democrat you get war...

Heads they win... tails you lose.

[nashville_brook]

6. when i was in college, i used to get so mad when people said that.

not no more.

[unhappycamper]

7. Of course Petraeus lies.

He's a military man.