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Iraq 'surge' working, Petraeus tells Congress
CNN Online ^ | September 10, 2007 | Barbara Starr, Dana Bash and Ted Barrett

Posted on 09/10/2007 10:45:28 AM PDT by avacado

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To: Hoffer Rand

Well it is too late for the traitors, they bet on America’s defeat and they lost their bet. They are going to pay a very heavy price for this but they and their media do not know it yet.


21 posted on 09/10/2007 11:21:47 AM PDT by jveritas (God bless our brave troops and President Bush)
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To: avacado

http://www.politico.com/pdf/PPM43_general_petraeus_testimony_slides10_september_2007.pdf


22 posted on 09/10/2007 11:23:27 AM PDT by TornadoAlley3 ( An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping that it will eat him last..)
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To: avacado
wouldn't want to listen to someone who's goal is SUCCESS!

Yes! We demand a bleak vision of life. . We wouldn't want to shed a single ray of sunshine into the dark view of life that kids are indoctrinated with via JrHi and HS novels.

23 posted on 09/10/2007 11:27:36 AM PDT by syriacus (If the US troops had remained in S. Korea in 1949, there would have been no Korean War (1950-53))
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To: Eagles Talon IV
"Calmly, rationally and without hysterics, arm waving or breast beating, the good General has dismembered and made to look totally foolish the entire left wing smear machine. With amazing clarity and attention to detail using his graphs and charts he explained precisely what has and is happening in Iraq. He has proclaimed that we have been to date successful and will be more so if allowed to continue and even has said we may be able to bring home as many as 5 Brigades by mid 2008."

Thank you for that report. I can't watch it on TV due to work, but I was hoping the very professional General Petraeus would handle those jokers easily.

24 posted on 09/10/2007 11:33:19 AM PDT by avacado
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To: avacado
From recent events it’s clear that President Bush has now won or close to winning, 5 wars in the Middles East:
1. Defeated Taliban/bin Laden’s Afghanistan (won)
2. Defeated Saddam Hussein’s Iraq (won)
3. Defended Iraq from Terrorist invasion (winning)
4. Ended a potential civil war from breaking out (Winning)
5. Defended Afghanistan from Terrorist invasion (winning)

The way is now clear for Iran.

25 posted on 09/10/2007 11:33:50 AM PDT by Berlin_Freeper (ETERNAL SHAME on the Treasonous and Immoral Democrats!)
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To: TornadoAlley3

Thanks for that link!!!!!!!!!


26 posted on 09/10/2007 11:34:38 AM PDT by avacado
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To: avacado; Calpernia

God bless General Petreaus. Dennis Preger said a while ago that the Democrat Party should distance itself from Soros’s MoveOn Org. But that would be difficult, because, thanks to McCain-Feingold, Soros now owns the Democrat Party.


27 posted on 09/10/2007 11:36:50 AM PDT by Paperdoll ( Duncan Hunter '08)
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To: jveritas

What really frosts me is the Senators and Congressmen being so pompous when it comes to saying the Iraqi Legislators should pass the legislation that our Legislators want - Hmmmmm, and when are OUR Legislators going to pass Immigration/Border Security Legislation that WE AMERICANS want???


28 posted on 09/10/2007 11:43:13 AM PDT by DelaWhere (I'm with Fred!)
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To: avacado

Doesn’t matter. The ‘Rats have already decided not to listen.


29 posted on 09/10/2007 11:44:17 AM PDT by Blood of Tyrants (G-d is not a Republican. But Satan is definitely a Democrat.)
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To: Blood of Tyrants
"Doesn’t matter. The ‘Rats have already decided not to listen."

True... but at least they had to sit through it.

30 posted on 09/10/2007 11:55:14 AM PDT by avacado
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To: DoughtyOne
Yes, General Patton wanted to succeed. Imagine him testifying before these Demos losers.
31 posted on 09/10/2007 12:08:28 PM PDT by GeorgefromGeorgia
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To: GeorgefromGeorgia

LOL, it would be a hoot to watch, to be sure.


32 posted on 09/10/2007 12:27:37 PM PDT by DoughtyOne ((Victory will never be achieved while defining Conservatism downward, and forsaking its heritage.))
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To: avacado

Speaking of Sen. Feinstein on FOX News Sunday...three words

Old Grand Dad


33 posted on 09/10/2007 12:28:18 PM PDT by massgopguy (I owe everything to George Bailey)
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To: massgopguy

LOL!!!! Was she liquored up and lackerd down?


34 posted on 09/10/2007 12:29:51 PM PDT by avacado
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To: Paperdoll

Dennis Preger bump!


35 posted on 09/10/2007 12:45:52 PM PDT by Calpernia (Hunters Rangers - Raising the Bar of Integrity http://www.barofintegrity.us)
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To: Paperdoll

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1890507/posts

Related:

Duncan Hunter: I think that my great friend, Ike Skelton from Missouri, conservative democrat with sons that are in the uniform, has done a good job with respect to the ham and eggs of making sure we continue the equipment procurements and the readiness procurements. Of course he has largely followed the administrations budget. And also we are increasing the size of the Army and Marine Corp. The administration has finally acquiesce our recommendation and they are recommending that this year.

Of course on the side where the democrats put their political hat on, and that is with respect to policy in Iraq. Obviously the person calling the shots there is Nancy Pelosi. And I think she is calling the wrong shots. I thought the statement by the democrat whip, Jim Clyburn, who said, “good news from General Petraeus in September would be bad news for the democrat party”. The idea that good news off the battlefield is bad for a political party in the United States, I thought that was a tragedy that that statement was made and a sorry reflection on the fact that the democrats look at Iraq not through the prism of national interests; but through the prism of politics. That is bad for our country.

I like that great old Senator Henry ‘Scoop’ Jackson who was one of the great democrat strong defense leaders of our time. He said, ‘in time of war national policy should emanate from our shore with one voice’. He liked to arm wrestle over spending on transportation and other things; but he supported the President in matters of national security. And the idea that the democrats are pulling away from us even before General Petraeus has made his statement, prepping the ground for the statement, that is a tragedy for our country.


36 posted on 09/10/2007 12:48:56 PM PDT by Calpernia (Hunters Rangers - Raising the Bar of Integrity http://www.barofintegrity.us)
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To: Enduring Freedom

While I agree with you on the new tone (SUCKS)... I am glad I voted for him. Did you hear lurch on Iraq today... kerry did a replay on Iraq just like he did when he came home from his few weeks in Vietnam. dims... traitors all!

LLS


37 posted on 09/10/2007 1:11:05 PM PDT by LibLieSlayer (Support America, Kill terrorists, Destroy dims!)
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To: GeorgefromGeorgia
Patton would have pulled his Ivory handled pistols out and shot the code pinko-fag protesters!

LLS

38 posted on 09/10/2007 1:22:14 PM PDT by LibLieSlayer (Support America, Kill terrorists, Destroy dims!)
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To: avacado

The fact that there has not been a “Tet”-like offensive by the insurgents prior to this Congressional Testimony is more proof-positive that the surge has been working. The Democrats should remind Osama Bin Laden that he’s not keeping up His end of the bargain...


39 posted on 09/10/2007 1:25:59 PM PDT by FDNYRHEROES (Always bring a liberal to a gunfight)
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To: FDNYRHEROES
You’re right... I had forgotten that no big attacks have been pulled off. This would have been the time to put on a big show.

The surge is definitely working.

40 posted on 09/10/2007 1:30:40 PM PDT by avacado
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