HEADS UP DU'ERS READ THIS ONE RE: PETREAUS

[bdamomma]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7363465.stm

US Defence Secretary Robert Gates has recommended the top military commander in Iraq, General David Petraeus, be appointed head of US Central Command.

CentCom covers an area from the Horn of Africa into central Asia and includes all operations in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Gen Petraeus's appointment is subject to the approval of the US Senate.

He would replace Navy Adm William Fallon, who stepped down in March after a reported split with President George W Bush over his policy on Iran.


this is not good news at all.

[bdamomma]

1. kick

[Ichingcarpenter]

5. He is one General I really don't trust

Because he doesn't even follow or know about the Constitution.


Ron Paul asks on the record General PETRAEUS if the United States will ask Congress according to the CONSTITUTION before it decides to bomb IRAN. They answer hum, mmm, uh, oh, hmmm RON PAUL then SILENCES them by saying the answer should be a definate NO!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_oOrgoslUe0

[no_hypocrisy]

2. What if the Senate doesn't approve?

Is there someone worse than Petraeus?

[bdamomma]

4. I only wish the Senate would call Fallon forward to come to committee

and ask why he stepped down.

[gateley]

7. Great idea!

I'll e-mail the "good guys" in the Senate and suggest it.

[underpants]

8. Not voting for Patreus would be like voting against flag pins

and there is NO WAY the Dems will get it together enough to do that

[stellanoir]

3. Agreed

This story made me queasy, especially after hearing Ritter on Steph's show the other day.

Maybe I'm delusional but I just don't think they'll get away with it again.

I'm thinking most of the Joint Chief's know that the military is stretched, if not entirely broken.

:hi: again

[pacalo]

6. Not good at all. Impeachment of BushCheneyCo could have prevented this type of spawning.

A Wesley Clark, he is not.

A big clue with neon lights around it (Iran) that they are planning something desperate.

[leveymg]

9. This time, I hope the Senate discusses Patreaus' major role in the Iraq WMD deception

See, leveymg's Journal - PETRAEUS' IRAQ WMD DECEPTION: How the General ... - 4 visits - Apr 8The terrible irony is that nobody seems to have raised questions about the fraud that connects General Petreaus to the Iraq WMD deception and the Plame case ...
http://journals.democraticunderground.com/leveymg/311

PETRAEUS' IRAQ WMD DECEPTION: How the General Earned His Stripes With Bush-Cheney
Posted by leveymg in General Discussion
Tue Sep 11th 2007, 08:26 AM
In the last few days, it's come to light that Gen. Petraeus was the original source for incorrect information released to the U.S. media in May 2003 that mobile biological warfare trailers had been located in Iraq. False intelligence findings were indeed substituted for a 122-page DIA report suppressed by the Pentagon.

During the next year, the Bush-Cheney Administration continued to make false assertions that Saddam Hussein had a biotoxins program in place before the invasion, and that certain trailers found in Iraq proved that claim.

We now learn that a team of Defense Intelligence Agency investigators concluded on May 26 that the trailers found had no connection to a biowarfare program, but, nonetheless, Pentagon spokesmen and the Administration continued to make unfounded allegations that the mobile labs had been manufacturing anthrax, smallpox, and other deadly germs.

Gen. Petraeus appears to have taken no steps to correct the record after he falsely stated to reporters on May 13 that there is a "reasonable degree of certainty that this is in fact a mobile biological agent production trailer."

We should all ask why this part of Petraeus' history has been glossed over. Why has Congress and the media not pointed this out about the General before?

MORE ***

[bdamomma]

10. oh, I have an over reactive mind

now, put this article with this thread. connect the dots or do I have this on
:tinfoilhat:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x3196868

[FightingIrish]

11. The guy who Fallon called an "ass kissing little chicken shit"

will now have his job. I wish we knew what the Iran timetable is. Cheney probably hasn't even told Bush.

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

12. A nice lapdog for Bush's lap.