General Petraeus and Congress

General Petraeus and Congress

General Petraeus has given his report to Congress and has firmly stated that it is his report and it has not been approved by anyone including the White House. If you can remember as recently as last week the Democrats were trying to paint this report as the PRESIDENT’S REPORT. The general quickly put that concern to rest with his opening statement. His report was neither a rosy or bleak picture of the situation in Iraq, what the report consisted of was simply put, the truth. Now it is a given that the Democrats wouldn’t recognize the truth or accept the truth if it did not agree with their inane view of the world as it is and the war we are in. All the Democrats could do is rehash the past and complain about the strategy which is to train the Iraqi’s to defend themselves and to run their own country. They constantly want to know the unknowable, when will we get out. My God we have been in South Korea for over fifty years and we’ve been in Europe since WWII ended over sixty years ago. What is clear, except for the few real loons in congress, who simply want to pull out now, most of them have no solution themselves. When asked individually about their solution I saw Senator Casey of Pennsylvania say he would train the Iraqi’s to take over their own defense, duh, that’s what we are doing. They want everything to happen immediately even though the surge did not reach its full capacity until mid June of 2007. The senators keep trying to make it seem as if the surge has been in effect since the President announced it in January of 2007. It is my opinion the Democrats are governing just as they have for the last 20 years and that is by looking to the polls. They stick their finger in the air and go with the way the polls are blowing. They have no original or useful ideas. They keep on talking about withdrawal but most of them do not have the guts to put it into legislation because then they would have to take responsibility for the results and if there is one thing that most Democrats are not into it’s responsibility.

Here is what todays candidates have to say about the general’s report and a withdraw from Iraq: Candidates on Petraeus’ Report