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Of course, American personnel did not train Iraqi security forces, and they have not captured "insurgents" by literally the thousands. Additionally, they have not discovered and destroyed weapons caches, or provided infrastructure and rebuilding even in the surge areas so that Iraqis can begin to return to normalcy. Our incompetent troops wouldn't know where to begin to clean up a dangerous neighborhood. If a bridge is blown up, oh well, I guess we'll just have to go around to the next one until it too gets blown up.(Please note the preceding was loaded with sarcasm)

I feel a little better now.

Since some of our other leaders (Katie Couric for one) have been saying that the surge is in part working, I have to go to school, I am a teacher, and make sure I straighten the misguided students out. We cannot have them thinking that the US is doing something right and noble.

Soldier's Mom - Golfer's Wife - Home alone a lot

Being in Germany, I guess you missed this is now “Bush’s Report”. Yes, the President is now personally writing the report and in the field commanding troops. Oh, and the small part Petraeus wrote?

the general is a mouthpiece for President Bush and his findings can't be trusted.

Yes but they support the troops!

Here are some more snippets;

"The Bush report?" Senate Majority Whip Richard J. Durbin said when asked about the upcoming report from Gen. Petraeus, U.S. commander in Iraq.

"The top Democrats — Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid of Nevada and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi of California — also referred to the general's briefing as the "Bush report."

I have never witnessed such blatant dishonesty and politically motivated behavior. Can anyone advise if Congressional ratings go below 0? Even the MSM is reporting good news and these lemmings are going over the cliff.

"Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori"
Contributor to The Minority Report

apologies in advance for violating the spirit of the kinder, gentler RS.

Schumer's flailing attempt to re-write current events, and Reid's insistence that time has run out, are desparate efforts at trying to put Humpty-Dumpty back together again. They have already written off the Petraeus/Crocker report, and they still shout that the American electorate overwhelmingly opposes any continuation of the war against Al Qaeda in Iraq.

The Surrender Caucus may have had the momentum at the time of the 2006 election, but not any more. Even mainstream media is acknowledging two things. First, abject surrender would be catastrophic for the US and the Middle East. And second, we are showing that a winning strategy and determination to implement it will bring us victory. The public sees this.

The tide has already turned. The Petraeus report next week will be an anti-climatic acknowledgement that we are winning. Schumer, Reid and Move-On will again be losers.

If we're offended by what the Senator said, it's because we didn't fully comprehend the intricacy and the meaning of his words, and the sophisticated way in which he ordered and then presented them.

The patriotic citizens of the Yale Law School surely understood (and concurred with) Schumer's nuance, based on their past public attitude toward the American military.

"Who will stand/On either hand/And guard this bridge with me?" (Macaulay)

After getting "down and Durbin'd", our troops are now getting "Schumerized" by two of the biggest jackasses ever to walk the halls of congress.

I hope the troops create a big, long banner with the appropriate words addressed to these knuckleheads. A banner similar to the one they sent to John Kerry when he inferred they were too dumb to do anything else but serve in the military.

must be inserted in Congress. More, if necessary.

We need to flush the feces from the system so we can begin repairing the bowels of our government. Chuckie will be the first POS flushed.

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Vista really sucks!

The Democrats are so invested in the defeat of their own country they have no choice but "all-in". You have to wonder, what level of deranged hate must you sink to find yourself in this position. These people voted to approve this new general, every one of them. They voted to promote him to a four star. They voted to fully fund the operation. Now a few short months into the operation, they pronounce it failed and call our troops incompetent and the reason for failure. The level of disgust for these people is beyond words.

Hate is blind, and all consuming, it truly is.

The only thing that counts is Gen Petraeus' report, and of course Katie Couric's analysis :^)

So, am I going to just really get reamed if I use the "T" word in association with Senator Charles Schumer?

He is a T___________.

He has DELIBERATELY AND WITH MALICE AFORETHOUGHT GIVEN AID AND COMFORT TO OUR ENEMEIES, MATERIALLY DAMAGING THE WAR EFFORT. It matters not that this is standard fare for elected Democrats and the leftist media. It matters not that his reasoning involves political posturing. It is still T____________.

Not only that, he's what Crash Davis called the umpire.

America is my country, it's a beautiful country, and that little CS just urinates all over it. Damn his sorry leftist hide.

It's war -- so when can we start shooting back at the enemy Democrats?

"are so desperate to lose the war,"

Didn't the chimp say Mission Accomplished 2 years ago???

Schumer's comments deserved having his phone lines melt. I only hope the NY Post takes the time to put the spotlight on the egregious comments about our troops and that New Yorkers take note. This disgraceful person has no shame in dragging anyone's good name thru the mud, with not a pittance of fact to substantiate his utterances, and hides behind the cloak of of senatorial protection. As a New Yorker, I am ashamed of his antics and wish other would wake up the the embarassment he brings our state.

...there, I said it.

WTF, the Leftards are always accusing us of doing so anyway, might as well get the please of ACTUALLY DOING SO.

--furious

"I find your lack of faith disturbing." -- Darth Vader

Is he could make a convincing argument for you to slit your own throat so it would be easier to donate blood. You'd pick up that it was a bad idea just ten minutes after you went through with it.

On the flip side he is the best argument for requiring an integrity test before allowing someone to hold public office.
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"Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it."
-Thomas Paine: The American Crisis, No. 4, 1777

I wish someone in the pentagon would call on Schmuck Schumer to repeat his comments in front of the troops on the ground in Iraq. (While their M16's are fully loaded)

Schumer merely stated the obvious. He didn't say the troops were incompetent, he said the troops are unable to protect every tribe, which is true. The troops have their limitations. They can't do the impossible.

It was a pragmatic statement Schumer made. Had he bothered to include "Despite their best efforts..."
And really folks, it was just another act in the duopoly's dog and pony show.

You are dead wrong about our troops you say they are incompitent they are very smart. You say the things you do but, our troops are the ones that gave you that freedom. Quit being retarded.

I got the wrong impression of this site seems to me I need to start sleepin more and workin less.

Chuckie and co need to repeat their slanders outside Congress.

The truly devastating thing about these current remarks, is that if true, it indicates that the US Army can soon begin to stand down, as the Iraqis HAVE STOOD UP!

Prior to the Surge, peace and victory had been achieved in 15 of the 18 Iraqi Provinces. Only Anbar, Diyallah, and Baghdad City province, were the remaining daily battlefields.

Of course occasionally, there was an outrage elsewhere, like against the Yazidis, but also the London Subway, the Madrid Train station, the Paris suburbs, the German airfields, and of course skyscrapers in New York City. But those are unusual events; the war was occurring daily in only three Iraqi provinces before the Surge. Now Anbar is much safer, Diyalla is much safer also, Baghdad and many of its suburbs are safer as well, but other boroughs of Baghdad are not yet secure. Peace with Victory is near to hand.

That is Bush's definition of Victory; America Stands down as Iraq stands up. Along with putting an elected democratic government in overall power, that is not in opposition to American interests.

Furthermore his patient, sometimes exasperating, policy of a carrot and a stick; not handling all the fighting with a massive US Army intrusion of 500,000 like in Vietnam, but patient, private, prodding, and arming, of the Iraqis, that no Non-Nation State can match. Waiting and defending them, while privately prodding them to reconcile disparate groups, build their new Democracy; new Army, new Police, and new democratic government, has worked.

Mr. Bush and his aides like Rumsfeld, even appear, in retrospect, to be geniuses, with the Patience of Job. Their patiently waiting for the Iraqis themselves to organize, to mobilize and to engage, surely cost domestic political support. They accepted it, managed it, withstood electoral losses, even so, kept steadfastly to their course, and seem to have won.

Casualties are tiny by comparison with most wars; a few thousand, barely above US pre-Bellum, US non-combatant deaths, instead of upwards of 50,000 military deaths, as other limited wars consumed, like Korea and Vietnam.

Explicitly: We have been VICTORIOUS!

We have now accomplished EVERY SINGLE ONE of our War Aims, except for the mopup. Just like after the allies had successfully and permanently established themselves in Normandy in WWII. War fighting is/was still needed, the outcome appears to increasingly be pre ordained.

First: A genocidal mass killer and his government, has been overturned; he has been captured, tried in a court of law, and executed by the Iraqis themselves, not us.

Second: We can begin standing down soon, as a Democracy is in place, elections have been held with little overt corruption, and a democratic government is functioning. (At least as well as in Mr. Schumer's one Party State of New York functions).

Third: The Al Queda has been destroyed in its last strongholds of Anbar and Diyallah, by their supposed supporters, the Sunni Iraqis themselves. They have been massacred in their efforts to flee, and to stand in Diyalla's Buquaba.

Fourth: Meanwhile, the Shia Iraqis under Malawi, have already thrown the Sadr Persian Stooges, even though Shia, out of their Shia dominated, popularly elected government, in Baghdad.

Fifth: Even some ancillary side benefits have been achieved as well. The long suppressed nationalism of the Kurds has been met, within the Iraqi Federation, relieving the Middle East area of a future reason for war. Turkey's war bluster, and Iranian Kurdish border shelling, has even served to remind the Kurds that there is safety inside of an Iraq, with Big power support. Versus probable destruction of Kurdish nationalism, through explicit efforts toward independence.

Lastly: Iraq can stand alone, after we are finished, without a constant dole from a reluctant Congress. The Democrats won't be able to cut the legs out from under the Iraqis like they did to the Vietnamese. The Iraqis have Oil, and lots of it, with which to buy arms.

All these victorious accomplishments, in spite of somewhat seditious, self-serving fools, such as Mr. Schumer himself!

I accept his implicit designation, and second his implicit nomination of Mr. G W Bush for the Nobel Peace Prize...

Petraeus will report surge is working but needs more time w/out reduction in forces. Dems are already discounting the report and emphasizing the GAO report(it's more negative). Goes to show they will search for evidence that backs up their agenda rather than form an opinion after they get all the evidence.

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