Petraeus: ‘We Haven’t Started The Surge Yet’

[rodeodance]

Folks--our troops are there for a long time of dying!

http://thinkprogress.org/2007/06/05/petraeus-surge/

Petraeus: ‘We Haven’t Started The Surge Yet’

In April, during the congressional debate over war funding, Gen. David Petraeus pushed back against a withdrawal timeline from Iraq “because we’re only about two months into the surge,” assuring Congress that he would be able to report on progress in September:

We’re only about two months into the surge. We won’t have all the forces on the ground until mid-June and I pointed that out to them, and noted that Ambassador Crocker and I would be doing an assessment in early September and provide that to our respective bosses at that time.

But now that the debate on timelines has passed, Petraeus is asking for even more time. Today in an interview with Lara Logan of CBS News, Petraeus tried to argue that the surge hasn’t even started yet:

We haven’t started the surge — the full surge — yet. So let me have a few months.

Watch it:

[ChairmanAgnostic]

1. the surge will start AFTER it has succeeded.

bushbot logic 101

[ShortnFiery]

4. Yes, in line with the following rationale ...

The beatings will continue until morale improves ... the informants will feed you information until we can entrap homeless men selling cologne on street corners on a myriad terrorist charges ... the torture sessions will continue at GITMO until you agree to admit what war crimes we TELL YOU that you have committed ... albeit he was not ever told earlier NOT to travel and tests negative on three consecutive tests, we will SCARE the entire world populace re: a man who has a "very small" chance of spreading a drug resistant form of TB. :eyes:

To sum it up fear-mongering to the max for the sake of perpetual war. We all now work for the Military Industrial complex. Buck-up and join the team American Citizen, lest you be silenced ... one way or another ... sooner or later ... you will either be part of the Freedom USA team or soon be determined to be in league with The Terrorists and sent away. :wow:

The BushBotBorg Military Industrial Complex and their Blackwater buds own the entire USA M$M.

YOU WILL LEARN TO LOVE OUR DEAR LEADERS' PERPETUAL WARS ... RESISTANCE IS FUTILE ... YOU WILL BE ASSIMILATED! :scared:

War is Peace.
Freedom is Slavery.
Ignorance is Strength

[rodeodance]

2. as usual, a few months here, a few months there-pretty soon it is ANOTHER YEAR

[EV_Ares]

3. This general should be ashamed of himself - his men should be his

first concern, not helping by spinning GWB's "surge".

Guess it is nice that the president after firing others found one to do his bidding for him.

[ShortnFiery]

5. He's not nicknamed *General Peaches BetrayUs* for nothing.

:shrug: :thumbsdown:

[Thor_MN]

6. All he is saying, is give war a chance.....

Just once, I would like one of these A-holes to define "Win" in terms of the "Iraq War". I think it is "stay the course until we can saddle the next president, then blame everything on someone else". I also think it's more about the "Iraq Warez"

[napi21]

7. Well General, you better ge your a** in gear then huh?

Haven't you heard? Shrub has dumped EVERYTHING on YOU, and if you don't have things under conterol by September, it's going to be YOU who gets all the blame!

The main reason we aren't OUT of there already is because Shrub was hunting for a pattsy, and he finally found one!

[endarkenment]

8. Petraeus: "I'm a lying sack of shit".

The escalation has not only failed to reduce the violence and stabilize the government of the green zone, it has increased the violence, caused an open revolt against the occupation in the nominal Iraqi parliament, and ceded control over 'sunnistan' to the insurgency. At the same time an open break of kurdistan from the nominal government has grown much more likely.

Patraeus is seeing his career getting beached on iraq.