Blowing Off the PR Pixie Dust While Waiting for Petraeus

[unhappycamper]

Blowing Off the PR Pixie Dust While Waiting for Petraeus
Arianna Huffington
Posted July 30, 2007 | 06:06 PM (EST)


The White House is giving Gen. David Petraeus the most over-the-top PR push since the Segway's inventor predicted, "It's going to change the world."

The constant sprinkling of pixie dust is meant to render Petraeus' coming September report unassailable -- the political equivalent of basketball advice from John Wooden or a sex assessment by Jenna Jameson.

For months now, I've been trying to blow some of that pixie dust off Petraeus so that, come September, his vaunted report will be seen for what it inevitably will be: one more stall tactic designed to deny reality and delay the inevitable.

Does anyone doubt that when Mr. Petraeus Goes to Washington after Labor Day he will deliver a glass half-full assessment that "acknowledges some challenges" but concludes that "the surge is working" (don't forget those soccer fields!) and "just needs more time"?

Indeed, we already know Petraeus' thinking on the matter. The New York Times recently uncovered a classified plan that calls for U.S. troops to be in Iraq at least until the middle of 2009, and probably beyond. The co-author of that plan: Gen. David Petraeus.


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[rpannier]

1. Agree

We all know that he will put a sunny spin on it, say we're showing progress and that pulling out will be devastating.

It's kind of like the song "Dancing in the Streets."

The song has been re-recorded by God-knows-how-many-people and it still sucks.

But, we'll still have people telling us how great it is.


on note: How long will it take for those soccer fields to be used for the same thing that the soccer fields built for the Taliban were used for??? (executing people en masse)

[KharmaTrain]

2. Ya Mean The Game Is Rigged? Again???

It's amazing how compliant the corporate media has been in portraying Petraeus as another Patton or Grant or some great military tactician who is gonna turn shit into apple butter. This hype was bullshit then, it's bullshit now and we're seeing the results.

The first step this regime is serious about ending the bloodletting and profiteering and finding its way out of this mess would be to find a political, not a military figure to hang its hat on. Nixon knew that when he promoted Kissinger as his Vietnam savior. With only a military face as to the solution, there won't be one...period. If this isn't a war of conquest and occupation, then where's the political solution here? Malaki? And he and Petreus are sure hitting it off, aren't they???

Once again, boooosh has found a scapegoat...someone who will take his fall or cover his ass...and in this case, he's been ordered to. Patereus job hasnt' been to lead, but to operate a PR shop...along with Pace and other top brass...to confuse and distort the military situation to enable the profiteering to go on. Even Arriana should see through that.