Guest lineup for the Sunday TV news shows:

NBC’s “Meet the Press”
Sen. John Kerry,
D-Mass.Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz..
CBS’s “Face the Nation”

Sen. Jon Kyl, R-Ariz.Sen. Carl Levin, D-Mich.
Fox News……

Good job, Gen Petraeus. It is too bad we didn’t follow the mongol example of how to handle the middle-east. They did it right the first time.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Baghdad_%281258%29

Having had time to review the testimony of General Patraeus and Amb. Crocker I have to ask just what was all the fuss. He told us exactly what we expected because it’s the logical step forward in the war. First, let’s go with a little M…

The security situation is improving, the political situation is stable enough to allow progress. Critically, the Iraqi people have clearly rejected both Shia extremists and Al-Qaeda and want to work toward a peaceful country. We always thought it would take 5-10 years and it looks like it may happen sooner rather than later.

The Middle East will see the results of a stable democracy, creating a real solution to the cause of the 9/11 attacks, Islamic dictatorships.

We can win, he says, if we’re ready to buckle down and commit long term. Read the polls and you’ll see that most of the public isn’t. So much for Iraq.

AP, always the consistent pessimist and defeatist. The American people want the troops home because they are tired of the constant causalities and death displayed on their TVs, if causalities go down and violence continues to drop Americans won’t care how many troops we have in Iraq. We have a good amount of troops in other countries for years and American people haven’t called for withdrawal because troops aren’t dieing every day. As time goes on and Iraq moves off the front page, becoming like any other of our bases in the region, such as Kuwait or Saudi Arabia, we can have a long term commitment to Iraq. Healthy pessimism is good, but your is becoming ridiculous.

Mcguyver on September 11, 2007 at 1:08 AM

Did you completely miss the comment at 12:27 AM that I was responding to?

That is the only explanation that I can figure for you asking me these strange questions.

What!

There has got to be something in the water!

Mcguyver on September 11, 2007 at 1:00 AM

Betraying George Will as a neocon? I didn’t know or think that he was one. I still don’t know what you are talking about.

MB4 on September 11, 2007 at 12:53 AM

Links, quotes that you perceive to be betraying him as such.

The good general made the members of congress sit back and listen, even though they didn’t want to. Better yet he made the American people listen, and that scares the hell out of congress, and you I suspect.

What are you talking about? You want me to supply a link or quote where George Will says, “I am not a neocon!”?

George Will a neocon???

MB4 on September 11, 2007 at 12:33 AM

A joke I’m guessing…..
otherwise supply a link or quote, please.

….tank you

Petraeus to Call Iraq ‘Safest Democracy on Earth’

AND

Petraeus Caves to Dems, Orders Surge of Accountants

Limerick on September 11, 2007 at 12:40 AM

Well knock me over with a feather!

And you just can’t trust those sneaky liberals like George Will anyway!

MB4 on September 11, 2007 at 12:33 AM

I’ll take the good General’s opinion over Will’s, or yours for that matter.

” A democracy, wrote the diplomat and scholar George Kennan, “fights for the very reason that it was forced to go to war. It fights to punish the power that was rash enough and hostile enough to provoke it — to teach that power a lesson it will not forget, to prevent the thing from happening again. Such a war must be carried to the bitter end.” Which is why “unconditional surrender” was a natural U.S. goal in World War II, and why Americans were so uncomfortable with three “wars of choice” since then — in Korea, Vietnam and Iraq.

What “forced” America to go to war in 2003 — the “gathering danger” of weapons of mass destruction — was fictitious. That is one reason why this war will not be fought, at least not by Americans, to the bitter end. The end of the war will, however, be bitter for Americans, partly because the president’s decision to visit Iraq without visiting its capital confirmed the flimsiness of the fallback rationale for the war — the creation of a unified, pluralist Iraq.

After more than four years of war, two questions persist: Is there an Iraq? Are there Iraqis?”