General Petraeus on Iraq

stockingfull wrote:Which of the GOP crook Speakers are you pining for? Newt "Impeach Clinton for philandering while I'm philandering" Gingrich? David "I almost was Speaker but I was also a philanderer" Livingston? Denny "Look the other way while Mark Foley was diddling with the pages" Hastert? How about good ol' leader Tom "let's illegally reapportion Texas while I'm golfing at St. Andrews with Abramoff" DeLay?

Newt

spc wrote:

stockingfull wrote:Which of the GOP crook Speakers are you pining for? Newt "Impeach Clinton for philandering while I'm philandering" Gingrich? David "I almost was Speaker but I was also a philanderer" Livingston? Denny "Look the other way while Mark Foley was diddling with the pages" Hastert? How about good ol' leader Tom "let's illegally reapportion Texas while I'm golfing at St. Andrews with Abramoff" DeLay?

Newt

Smart guy, Newt, no doubt. But highly corrosive; the '94 "Republican Revolution" was his brainchild, and most mark it as the beginning of the hyper-partisanship which voters have been turning away from since 2006. After so long in the minority, Newt might have been understood for wanting to "break some china" in taking control of Congress. And he sure did.

But, as it turned out, his boyz turned out to be not one bit more ethical in their use of that power than the Democrats had been; not only did they prove just as corrupt and partisan, they abandoned the truly conservative principles that they'd run on and, once they got a President of their own party, set records for spending our money.

Thankfully, it'll soon be over. Just look at the voter turnout and money raised this primary season.

daveuz wrote:[Richard you are on to something here . Let me add to the great names: General Ulysses S. Grant and General Robert E Lee and let us not forget Stonewall Jackson.

Great line from the recently deceased Richard Widmark's "Halls of Montezuma" can be applied to all the generals you just named....."Those eightballs were'nt that great!! ..... They never even left the States!!"

Devil5052 wrote:

daveuz wrote:[Richard you are on to something here . Let me add to the great names: General Ulysses S. Grant and General Robert E Lee and let us not forget Stonewall Jackson.

Great line from the recently deceased Richard Widmark's "Halls of Montezuma" can be applied to all the generals you just named....."Those eightballs were'nt that great!! ..... They never even left the States!!"

Not so. General Jackson fought in the Mexican American war in Mexico in the late 1840's or early 1850's. Sorry, I watch the history channel when I'm not on the coal forum.

coalkirk wrote:

Devil5052 wrote:

daveuz wrote:[Richard you are on to something here . Let me add to the great names: General Ulysses S. Grant and General Robert E Lee and let us not forget Stonewall Jackson.

Great line from the recently deceased Richard Widmark's "Halls of Montezuma" can be applied to all the generals you just named....."Those eightballs were'nt that great!! ..... They never even left the States!!"

Not so. General Jackson fought in the Mexican American war in Mexico in the late 1840's or early 1850's. Sorry, I watch the history channel when I'm not on the coal forum.

Ah.......but isn't Mexico our 51st State? (or maybe I have that backwards! )
Either way, it's easier to cross the Mexican border than it is for me to cross over into Rhode Island!

Iraq's Prime Minister Maliki seems to be smarter than the American media, the lib's & some on this forum. Go figure.

"Iraq: Sadr party faces rising isolation"

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080406/ap_ ... e_sadrists

spc wrote:Iraq's Prime Minister Maliki seems to be smarter than the American media, the lib's & some on this forum. Go figure.

"Iraq: Sadr party faces rising isolation"

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080406/ap_ ... e_sadrists

Whaddaya mean, "smarter?"

Do you really think our impending election has nothing to do with the Iraqi gov't finally getting off the tit?

It's great news; every such act of self-reliance puts us another step closer to getting the flock outta there.

stockingfull wrote:Whaddaya mean, "smarter?"

More intelligent than, sharper, brighter.

It looks like it is up to the old cleric Sistani now.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080407/wl_nm/iraq_dc

spc wrote:

stockingfull wrote:Whaddaya mean, "smarter?"

More intelligent than, sharper, brighter.

There were 2 questions in my post; where's your answer to the second?

coaledsweat wrote:It looks like it is up to the old cleric Sistani now.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080407/wl_nm/iraq_dc

If they're really smart, they'll knock all of this off till we can get the hell outta there.

Then I don't care if they form a circle and spill all they want.

Hearings will be on CSPAN starting at 9:30am. I'm gonna have it on in the backgound. You can watch it here http://www.c-span.org/watch/index.asp?Cat=TV&Code=CS )

stockingfull wrote:

spc wrote:

stockingfull wrote:Whaddaya mean, "smarter?"

More intelligent than, sharper, brighter.

There were 2 questions in my post; where's your answer to the second?

I'm glad we agree the Iraqi gov't is stepping up.

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If you watch clips of the actual street fighting, the Iraqi soldiers have to be pushed into the battle....Or more accurately...pulled by US GI's! (10 US GI's killed just yesterday)

Devil5052 wrote:Hearings will be on CSPAN starting at 9:30am. I'm gonna have it on in the backgound. You can watch it here http://www.c-span.org/watch/index.asp?Cat=TV&Code=CS )

Why would you watch? There is nothing the General would say that would please you.

You can use this in your post after the hearings, "Bush's military mouth piece".