Petraeus report likely to enliven U.S. campaign

[L. Coyote]

Petraeus report likely to enliven U.S. campaign
By Steve Holland - Reuters
Thursday, September 6, 2007
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/09/06/AR2007090600939.html


WASHINGTON (Reuters) - An upcoming report by Gen. David Petraeus on the results of President George W. Bush's troop build-up in Iraq is likely to offer plenty of firepower for both sides to debate in the U.S. presidential campaign.

Democrats are already making clear they will seize on the absence of political reconciliation in Iraq as evidence that it is time to wind down the war.

Republicans will be able to point to military progress in parts of Iraq as cause for hope that Bush's so-called "surge" policy is having a positive impact, that it should be given more time to work and that it is possible for some U.S. troops to be brought home next spring.

All of this will fall on American voters weary of the war's ceaseless images of death and destruction, ready for change in Iraq and eager to hear from presidential candidates on how they would deal with Iraq if elected in November 2008.

[liberal N proud]

1. Enliven?

en·liv·en (ĕn-lī'vən)
tr.v., -ened, -en·ing, -ens.
To make lively or spirited; animate.

:wtf:

[BOSSHOG]

2. Give it more time to work

The lemmings refrain. They've come along way from getting WMD and our troops being greeted as liberators.

I suggest they get their fat conservative republican asses down to the Army Recruiting Station and they provide the blood and the manpower and the time if they think its such a great fucking success.

[Zodiak]

3. Lets not forget the Democrats, too

There are a number of them that are twisting our leadership's arm to not allow a withdrawal date, effectively handing the debate to the pukes before it even begins (they have done this on EVERY major capitulation this year). As far as I am concerned, those Democrats are the enemy as well, and I want to know who they are.

I will not countenance these Democratic War Hawks hiding behind anonymity when their actions go directly against the wishes of the American pople and the bulk of their own party. As far as I'm concerned, if we do not find out their names, then the leadership is complicit.

I bet we won't find out their names.