In Petraus & Mattis COIN manual, the #1 item in the list of “Hallmarks of a poor COIN,” is ‘focusing on killing the insurgents.’

Anyone can still be a war supporter, with views I might call ‘denialist,’ but … such folks (like the Freeper noted) should *at least* get with the program, and get over the “lets just kill all the jihadis” mentality.

That feed is entirely for the anti-American crowd consumption. Christiane Amanpour is one of the biggest mouths on it.

Ya, read the comments – they are asking the original poster if it’s a typo. It’s a hollow straw man setup by AP and you fell for it!

TheBigOldDog on March 8, 2007 at 6:23 PM

See below from those comments. RIF.

Looks like Petraus should be in the State Department instead of the military. He is pushing for negotiations with those car-bombers, kidnappers, assassins, and terrorists foreign to Iraq. Shouldn’t he concentrate on the military mission instead of parroting the negotiation mantra? In El Salvador in 1989 – 1992 I was made ill by the US Embassy constantly pushing for negotiations with the terrorists which gave away much of the military successes. Looks like history is repeating itself.

…notice how honora stopped posting at 5pm, right on Drinking Schedule?

Janos Hunyadi on March 9, 2007 at 2:03 AM

Of course, duh. 2AM, that’s more the time for Twinkies and whatever take-out hasn’t yet gone bad in the fridge, right?

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Even Bug-eyes Pelosi sounded spooked; I think she knows they’re going to Eat Dirt on this one, but she has to placate the looney-bats

…notice how honora stopped posting at 5pm, right on Drinking Schedule?

They are called “progressives” by the News Hours. I call them rank traitors.

If the surge does work, these Dems are so hung out to dry. Talk about having no exit strategy.

smellthecoffee on March 8, 2007 at 10:35 PM

smellthecoffee, the surge is working, didn’t your read/hear/see about it?

Have you seen this in the “popular media”? No, I didn’t think so……….

If the Democrats caused the Sun to explode, they still wouldn’t report it, except to leave CD’s behind, after we are all dead, blaming it on Conservative Republicans….

Where was that veto power when the Republicans were spending like drunken sailors?

budorob on March 8, 2007 at 4:58 PM

As I said, maybe he finally grew a “pair”.

Not only was the spending out of control (appease the Democrats), but why won’t he secure the borders?

I thought Michael Ware was talking pretty straight until he said “so-called” enemies.

Yeah, that remark may have saved his career at CNN.

Pelosi unveiled the long-awaited Democratic compromise pullout plan about an hour ago: withdrawal will begin by the end of this year if Maliki can’t meet the security and economic benchmarks set for him, and if he can, then withdrawal will begin next March with everyone out by fall 2008.

If I understand correctly, Pelosi would have the Americans leave if Maliki needs them, but stay if he doesn’t. She’s given me the new thought that, in the struggle to reach the very heights of national politics, most wholly sane women are eliminated. Margaret Thatcher got there, true, but so have Hillary Clinton and Nancy Pelosi, the last of whom seems frankly deranged.

Ya, read the comments – they are asking the original poster if it’s a typo. It’s a hollow straw man setup by AP and you fell for it!

TheBigOldDog on March 8, 2007 at 6:23 PM

When you say AP, you mean Allah, right? You may want to change that for those of us who skim posts, it’s confusing.

Not sure that Allah set it up as a “hollow” straw man, that seems a little too clever for him.

(I kidd, I kidd!)

The talking head must be referring to Ware’s employment at CNN.

Reid’s plan in the Senate actually calls for withdrawal before Pelosi’s does — “within one hundred twenty days” of the bill’s passage, with all troops out by March 31 of next year. They know it doesn’t stand a chance. It’s pure (cadavre) grandstanding.

I am fully accountable and responsible for the insertion of the word “cadavre”.

Click the line “Betraus” above. It takes you to the Free Republic site wherein there are comments trashing Petraeus. Hence AP’s comment

Ya, read the comments – they are asking the original poster if it’s a typo. It’s a hollow straw man setup by AP and you fell for it!

In the words of AP, heart-ache.

So now the Democrats actually believe they can push through legislation that would force Bush to start withdrawing troops by next year. House Democrats put themselves on a collision course with President Bush today by unveiling legislation that would s…