What if...Patraeus stands up in the hearing tomorrow and says:

[redirish28]

Ladies and Gentlemen, We are getting are a$$e$ kicked in Iraq. We have no buiness being there we should leave now. This was all about oil and nothing else.

[acmavm]

1. Someone give redirish28 a shake. Seems like someone's dreaming.

I would be nice but this guy's a proven liar.

[PDJane]

2. It's a lovely thought.........

I'm sorry that it's purely fiction.

[The Wielding Truth]

3. Seriously. The MIlitary has to be getting sick of this. It would

be an honorable thing for him to tell the truth as he sees it on the ground. He has to answer to the President, but his duty is to his country.

[w13rd0]

4. If he was even thinking...

...of doing anything REMOTELY like that, the Bush administration would have learned of it somehow (probably by spying on him), and he'd find his plane going down over a stretch of desert sand.

[jillan]

5. Mitch McConnell and his gang would probably tell

Petreaus that he is wrong.

[PatSeg]

13. And Bush will give him the Medal of Freedom

after he fires him!

[FormerDittoHead]

6. He would go down in history as one of the greatest Americans, up there with Washington...

Too bad the military, which we are told we must support, doesn't seem to have any such men...

[Adsos Letter]

7. He would give the American people...

...a much needed dose of reality, as well as someone to look to as an example of what IS possible...starting with an honest assessment of where we are, and in relation to more than Iraq.

My God, if only he would do it...

[Stalwart]

8. What if he says:

I will not lie, cheat or steal nor tolerate those that do. Then he delivers the truth.

There was a cadet at the recent academy graduation that refused to shake hands with Cheney.

Could a general show as much courage in a situation where he is required to express himself honestly.

If not he is not qualified for his job. If he did he might be elected president by write in.

[Adsos Letter]

9. Oh man...

Or if he started out by looking directly at Cheney, et.al., and saying "When I first put on this uniform I took an oath to defend our Constitution against all enemies, foreign and domestic..."

If only...

[dflprincess]

10. We'll have to read about it in the foreign press

the American media wouldn't report it.

[RFKJrNews]

11. Well, we can dream, can't we?

But General Betray-us is placed to serve his masters, NOT the American people.

He is no General Smedley Butler, who famously said that "War is a Racket!" - and that the United States military had been used as nothing more than mere enforcers for corporate interests, "making the world safe for Standard Oil" - and this was in the 1930s!!!

[PurityOfEssence]

12. Cheney'll be so pissed he'll go out and shoot 400 pigs right out of the sky,

then go snowmobiling in Hell, where he belongs.

[ProudDad]

14. You mean do something like this guy did?

War is a Racket - Gen. Smedley Butler

http://www.lexrex.com/enlightened/articles/warisaracket.htm

[tkmorris]

15. If, simultaneously, a monkey flew out of my butt

Would it hurt?