General David Petraeus is the democrat's worst nightmare and the Iraqi's best friend.
And... While the democrats were worrying how best to declare defeat for America despite the fact that the Bush Surge is making significant gains in the Iraqi democracy, the voice of the democratic party, MoveOn.org, released a volatile ad calling the honorable General Petraeus a traitor.
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This didn't go over too well as The Swamp reported:
The problem for MoveOn.org is that the ad will strike many Americans as extreme and likely turn a lot of people off to its larger message.On Monday night General Petraeus had a chance to respond to the outrageous attacks by the democratic group on his integrity.
As a new New York Times/CBS News poll being reported out today indicates, most Americans have more faith in the military to bring the Iraq War to a successful conclusion than they have in civilian leadership in either White House or Congress.
But the ad is obviously not targeted at the 68 percent of Americans who trust the military to successfully end the war. It's more for those who want an immediate withdrawal from Iraq.
But that's not where the majority of people are, according to repeated polls.
Also, the ad makes more headaches for the congressional Democratic leadership who are being put on the spot, with Republicans demanding that they renounce MoveOn.org.
General Petraeus and Ambassador Crocker were interviewed by Brit Hume on FOX News on the progress in Iraq. During the conversation the despicable attack ad came up.
This is what General Davide Petraeus said in response to the democratic attacks:
"I wrote it (his testimony)... It was my assessment and part of MY recommendations. They were mine not the White House's assessment... They (MoveOn) came back to an oped piece that I did back in the fall of 2004 reporting how we were doing training, etc. In fact some excerpts of that were used today in the testimony... And, I stand by them. I said simply that we were standing up the Iraqi Army from the bottom up and top down, I laid out the progress and challenges ahead and so on and so forth. And, I certainly stand by them..."
Ouch! General Petraeus is a the best thing to hit both Iraq and the Pelosi Swamp in months.
The Surrender Crowd Is Doomed!
Michael Yon agrees with Petraeus.
The Iraqi government welcomed the positive report on the progress of the US military surge in Iraq -BBC.
Related... The poisonous soul of Moveon.org.
Republicans introduced a resolution Monday condemning the disgraceful attacks by the democratic MoveOn.org group.
I'd love to hear what Lt Gen Odierno has to say about the slandering of his boss. I suspect it wouldn't be pretty.
ReplyDeleteMoveon has shot itself in the foot real real bad - as idiots are prone to do!
I think paying so much attention to MoveOn.org is a waste of our time. Plus, I think that many of you are framing this argument the wrong way... The Democrats are not, and have never been, the anti-war party - it's been the opposite, in fact. U.S. Representative Tom Lantos (D-CA), the current Chairman of the House International Relations Committee, is a San Francisco liberal. He is also perhaps the most pro-war person in Congress, of any party.
ReplyDeleteHis Republican counterpart (before the Democrats took control of Congress), the highly-esteemed U.S. Representative Henry Hyde (R-IL), opposed the Iraq war, and opposed the neoliberal and neoconservative foreign policy vision, that got us into this mess.
What MoveOn.org is doing is disrespectful... and I definitely oppose that organization.
However, I am skeptical about much of what is in the General's report.
As I have pointed out numerous times in the past... The top Democrats in America today are not truly anti-war... far from it, in fact.
Prior to the 2004 U.S. Presidential election, I asserted that, if John Kerry were elected, we could actually have more warfare and military interventionism than if Bush were to be re-elected. Several others [including both supporters and opponents of the Iraq war, and of President Bush], agreed with this.
And before the 2006 Congressional elections, I made the same type of argument, regarding the Democrats and the Republicans.
And now, I just saw an article featured at The Hill, showing that several of the hawkish Democrats, who have gotten Chairmanships, due to their party's takeover of Congress, and who I named there, were the same ones heaping lavish praise, earlier today, on General David Petraeus and U.S. Ambassador Ryan Crocker.
The pro-war, anti-war, and partisan reactionary segments of the American Left can attempt to pursue their destructive policies - many of which have been seized up, and even embraced, but today's "conservatives," along with the present White House, and much of the GOP leadership. Thankfully though, there are many on the Right, and in the Republican Party, who do not support these policies.
Ultimately, it may be the battle on the Right, over these vital contemporary foreign and domestic policy issues, that determines what direction our nation will go.
aakash,
ReplyDeleteNice attempt at applying a vat of lipstick on the Democratic party pig.
Too bad for you and the Democrats that no matter how much you try lipsticking your pig or try to spin the despicable actions of the Democratic party's nutroot allies (as with that moveon.org ad in the NYT) the only ones you are fooling are yourselves.
You see, we actually live in the real world. A place where people see things as they are and call them by thier right names
You, your Democratic party heroes and their LLL nutroot allies all proudly proclaim that you all live in that socialist workers paradise known as "reality-based community" where it is always sunny and 1968. It is a fossilized fantasyland where the only "real" things are the acid flashbacks.
Hmmm. Aakash, when the real election battles start sometime next summer, do you think that this despicable MoveOn.org ad will be shown by the Democrats running for office, or will it be shown by the Republicans running for office?
ReplyDeleteMy guess is that this broadsheet will be shown on quite a few ads for Republicans, and all but a few of the Democrats will be trying to shove it down the memory hole.
There are very few politicians I find honorable, but the Dems stood by idly while their financial supporters, their "base", the ones who claim to own the Democratic Party, slandered a commanding general, during wartime. That puts them into "traitorous" territory. There won't be a lot of finessing needed; most Americans understand what a traitor is, and what a traitor does or doesn't do to get that title. This won't be easily forgotten or forgiven.
Hey aakash on what planet and in what galaxy do these alledgedly war-like members of the party of the Seditious & Sleazy exist on?
ReplyDeleteIt surely isn't on planet Earth ...
The New York Times has been an active supporter of enemies of the United States since Walter Duranty won the Pulitzer for his favorable reporting of the Stalin Purge Trials in the thirties. The NYT is a tabloid for treason that reportedly only charged Move-On one-third the usual price for the vicious smear on Petraeus. Pinch Sulzberger should be investigated and if the Fairness Doctrine has any meaning at all, the print media should be treated the same as talk radio.
ReplyDeleteThe Soros-cide Move-On Marxists want a nanny-state filled with passive robots whose freedoms are vastly outnumbered by govt regs and diluted by a harsh taxation regime. To attain this goal, they must eliminate America’s military power projection capability. These deluded misguided gullible ideologues actually believe that taking a stand against Islamofascism in Iraq STRENGTHENS the Islamist radicals. It may cause a few conversions to AQ among young unstable types like Adam Gadahn and thousands of undereducated madrasa grads. But they might have gone the AQ route anyway, willy-nilly Iraq. Move-On and the Soros-cide left are simply ridiculous and their ad demonstrates desperation as the Dems find that common sense is better than hysterical fabulist prevarications from the Kossack Huff-Puff Left.
Whew! I’ve got more to say at www.daveinboca.blogspot.com, including a riff on the McCarthy Hearings in the ’50s written before the Boston Globe & Blue Crab did the same excellent comparison.
aakash does a yeoman effort to rationalize the vicious media smear campaign, epitomized by the Move On smear in the NYT, to discredit Gen Petraeus. Yes, there are pro-war Dems and anti-war Republicans, but history demonstrates that it was Reagan's all-out efforts against the USSR that removed atheistic Communism from the stage as a world power. Militant Islamism is attempting to replace Communism as a world hegemony, with ludicrous efforts. But the Soros-cide ultra-left is more pernicious, trying to insinuate Marxism and patty-cake kumbayeh relativism into our foreign policy to the extent that we become a nanny-state on the Euro-Commie model.
ReplyDeleteIt may work in a pacifist neutral country like Sweden, whose steel helped the Nazi war machine in WWII. Relativism means moral degeneracy---and the Euro-weenies simply cannot be a model for a world with REAL THREATS to western civilization and values.
Your six of one, half-dozen of the other is the kind of Jimmy Carter wishy-washy nincompoopery that mucked up our Middle East policy for thirty years.
You, your Democratic party heroes and their LLL nutroot allies all proudly proclaim that you all live in that socialist workers paradise known as "reality-based community" where it is always sunny and 1968. It is a fossilized fantasyland where the only "real" things are the acid flashbacks.
ReplyDeleteTrying to use that argument against me, on the day of the first College Republicans meeting - and especially on the day of the 9/11 anniversary, is particularly striking.
If you do a little research, you will see that this war was never about Republicans vs. Democrats, or even Right vs. Left. There are intra-movement cleavages within both sides of the ideological divide.
This fact has been recognized by both conservatives and liberals, war supporters and war opponents alike.
Clifford D. May:
Iraq war is not about just left vs. right
There is a lot more information available... Within just the past several years, in fact, entire books have been written about this very issue, by pro-war liberals such as Paul Berman, Christopher Hitchens, and Peter Beinart, as well as by conservative or neoconservative war supporters, and war opponents.
But as for your remarks in this comment thread, about me and "the Democrats":
We can disagree on the issues - but if you're going to use personal insults...
Then please, please... Don't use that one!
I tried to watch the video, but it friggin' sucks. I'm on a 256 DSL line, I like to usually load up a few minutes of video and then begin playing it, pausing it whenever I need to let the download catch up. Unfortunately whatever crappy system this video was uploaded to prevents such pausing. Pausing instead pauses the download as well. So all I get is a continual stutter every half second for the entire thing.
ReplyDeleteYou know how much it sucks to listen to minutes and minutes of continual stutter?
Please avoid motionbox in the future until they modernize their pause ability. :(
juandos,
ReplyDeleteI have done a number of blog entries and past pieces about this very issue.
And the very weblogs on the blogroll at this site have also discussed these liberal internationalists... The site of conservative war veteran Dr. James Joyner is one example (see here and here).
You could do a web search, or look it up in the encyclopedia.
Pro-war publications, that probably share much of your ideology, such as the Weekly Standard and National Review, have both published articles on the liberal hawks.
And The New Republic is a leftist magazine that shares this philosopy. Other liberal organizations that strongly supported the Iraq war include the Progressive Policy Institute, and Social Democrats USA (part of Socialist International).
This is only a very, very brief overview. Within just the past couple of years, entire books have been published, written by liberal hawks, about the importance of leftists supporting warfare and military interventionism. Paul Berman, Peter Beinart, and Christopher Hitchens are among the authors who have written books about this topic.
But as I said above, you can find the answer to your question easily, by simply following a couple of links (they don't have to be mine), or by doing your own web search.
Really, it's not that hard.
Hi,
ReplyDeleteThought this news might be of some interest to your readers:
NEW moveon,org TV ad coming out on monday sept 17th...basically calling president bush a traitor.
Catch it here:
http://iraqsinconvenienttruth.com/2007/09/14/908/
For general david betray us fans or not:
http://davidbetrayus.com/
Have a great weekend!
Steve