Something is missing from MoveOn.org’s website – the General “Betray Us” ad. It has been removed.
Last week General McChrystal resigned as head of the war in Afghanistan after making some controversial remarks and the president replaced him with General Petraeus.
We all remember General Petraeus. To many of us he is a hero and the man that won the war in Iraq with his plan for “the surge,” but to the left he was nothing but a toadie for President Bush– a man with no integrity that...Read Full Story
Barack Obama has accepted General McChrystal’s resignation and has replaced him with the great General Petraeus– the man who engineered and brought us victory in the Iraq war. A better choice could not have been.
With the revelations of General McChrystal’s comments in an interview with Rolling Stone magazine Barack Obama had no choice but to let him go. As much as I respect General McChrystal’s 30 year military career– and agree with the comments that he made– he just could not make the...Read Full Story
“Cap and traitors.” “Traitors.” “Treasonous.” “Turncoats.” “RINOs.” Adjectives abound in describing the eight Republicans who voted for the Waxman-Markey cap and trade bill; the bill passed the House by a razor thin 219-212 vote–a seven vote margin. But is it fair to label them as traitors? Do these eight, who made the passage possible, fit the definition of traitors?
Mark Tapscott , Editorial Page Editor of the Washington Examiner, believes that calling the eight Republicans traitors is...Read Full Story
The head of the US Central Intelligence Agency, David Petraeus (pictured), will visit South Korea this weekend to discuss developments in North Korea after the death of its leader Kim Jong-Il, according to a report.
Reporting from Washington — CIA Director David H. Petraeus will have a dual mission when he testifies about worldwide threats at a Senate intelligence committee hearing Tuesday. He also is working to improve relations with some powerful lawmakers and ...
Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.), chair of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, took issue with how Petraeus was portrayed in the story. "Nothing could be farther from the truth," Feinstein said at the start of a daylong hearing about global ...
WDEL's Amy Cherry talks w/ Holly Petraeus. Attorney General Beau Biden and the wife of General David Petraeus are meeting with members of the Delaware National Guard to discuss consumer protection and financial issues facing service members. WDEL's Amy Cherry reports.
"Beau" Biden III and Holly Petraeus want to know about it. Biden, who is Delaware's attorney general, and Petraeus, who is the director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's Office of Servicemember Affairs, visited Dover Air Force Base ...
Hour 2: Did the command of David Petraeus fundamentally change the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan? How did his background prepare him for leadership and should we expect the same sort of results at the CIA? We’ll spend this ...
Petraeus, now CIA director, commanded troop surges in Iraq and Afghanistan when conflicts in both countries looked bleak. Broadwell's 400-page biography is a war chronicle that begins as Petraeus takes command of U.S. forces in the Afghanistan ...
The much anticipated "General Petraeus Report" on progress in Iraq will help frame the debate about the US strategy in Iraq and proposed troop withdrawal.
Quotable: Political language. . . is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind. – ...
“So much has been freighted on this one man, this one report and this one point in time that it is no longer possible for the 'Petraeus report' to fulfill its original purpose.” NPR.org ,
This weekend we learned that Gen. Petraeus' Report will actually be written by the White House. Now it turns out that the White House is pushing to have the general's increasingly nominal repo
NPR News - Morning Edition , September 10, 2007 · The U.S. commander in Iraq, Gen. David Petraeus, goes before Congress to give his assessment of the U.S. troop surge. Democrats want a troop withdraw