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Petraeus Helping Pick New Generals
Washington Post ^
| 11/17/2007
| Ann Scott Tyson
Posted on 11/17/2007 8:42:51 AM PST by Tennessean4Bush
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To: Tennessean4Bush
Sounds like some folks have been reading LTC Yingling’s essay.
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posted on
11/17/2007 8:44:13 AM PST
by
Terabitten
(Virginia Tech Corps of Cadets - E-Frat '94. Unity and Pride!)
To: Allegra; ari-freedom; arthurus; Bahbah; Ben Hecks; Blood of Tyrants; Boundless; bray; ...
Is Petraeus going to follow the footsteps of Eisenhower?
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posted on
11/17/2007 8:44:22 AM PST
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Tennessean4Bush
(An optimist believes we live in the best of all possible worlds. A pessimist fears this is true.)
To: Tennessean4Bush
This should be a good thing as he will go more on ability instead of political C2COS.
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posted on
11/17/2007 8:47:47 AM PST
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HuntsvilleTxVeteran
(Remember the Alamo, Goliad and WACO, It is Time for a new San Jacinto)
To: Tennessean4Bush
Is Petraeus going to follow the footsteps of Eisenhower? He'd probably get my vote. ;-)
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11/17/2007 8:48:04 AM PST
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Allegra
(Greetings from a kinder, gentler Iraq. God bless US and Coalition Forces.)
To: Tennessean4Bush
Even when General Petraeus is going to “win” Iraq, I do not see him as having political ambitions. He’ll rather retire to a quiet life on a farm or something.
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To: MinorityRepublican
I have read just the opposite.
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posted on
11/17/2007 8:51:46 AM PST
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Tennessean4Bush
(An optimist believes we live in the best of all possible worlds. A pessimist fears this is true.)
To: Allegra
He WOULD get my vote. Peter Pace also.
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posted on
11/17/2007 8:52:12 AM PST
by
golfisnr1
(Democrats are like roaches - hard to get rid of.)
To: HuntsvilleTxVeteran
If selections were done by a man like General Petraeus we won’t end up with POS like Wesley Clarke.
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posted on
11/17/2007 8:54:38 AM PST
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mimaw
To: Allegra
I wonder what the effect would be if at the republican convention the nominee pulls a surprise and chooses Petraeus as his running mate? Hmmm. Can you pull a guy out of active duty, I wonder?
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posted on
11/17/2007 8:55:37 AM PST
by
Tennessean4Bush
(An optimist believes we live in the best of all possible worlds. A pessimist fears this is true.)
To: Tennessean4Bush
I think Bush has found his Grant.
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posted on
11/17/2007 9:00:14 AM PST
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wildbill
To: Tennessean4Bush
To: mimaw
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11/17/2007 9:01:09 AM PST
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HuntsvilleTxVeteran
(Remember the Alamo, Goliad and WACO, It is Time for a new San Jacinto)
To: MinorityRepublican
Don’t have one. I read it sometime over the last 5 months or so on FR. It was an Iraqi who said Petraeus admitted to him that he wanted to run someday for President.
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11/17/2007 9:04:58 AM PST
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Tennessean4Bush
(An optimist believes we live in the best of all possible worlds. A pessimist fears this is true.)
To: Tennessean4Bush
Gen. Petraeus has made things work where others have not, he'd get my vote.
An Army task force is looking into incorporating such reviews, known as "360-degree evaluations," into the "officer efficiency reports" that are now completed only by superiors,
I believe Petraeus's footprints are on this and hopefully it will be implemented, it will take some of the politics out of the system and reward those that can get the job done.
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posted on
11/17/2007 9:05:02 AM PST
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jazusamo
(DefendOurMarines.com)
To: JackRyanCIA
Retire the last of the Clinton mushhead Generals and get some real American fighting men in there.I have the dishonor of having my retirement papers signed by Clinton, a stain that I will never be able to blot out. At the same time, don't believe for a minute that the neocons were any better at this. Wolfowitz and Feith and even Cheney were just as bad at ensuring the promotion of conformist yes-men (just a different sort of conformity), and it took the disasters of the first 3 years of Iraq to get these ideologues out of power and force putting in someone like Petraeus in the first place.
It is Winston Churchill who once said "You can count on the Americans to do the right thing - after they have exhausted every other possibility." Well, we exhausted every other possibility in Iraq.
To: Tennessean4Bush
Do you think he will be a viable candidate in 2012 or 2016? It’s been a long time since we’ve had a General as our President.
To: MinorityRepublican
Do you think he will be a viable candidate in 2012 or 2016? I think he might be more viable in 2008 as a VP. He will, by that time, be credited with winning the unwinnable war and be riding a wave of popularity among pubs, regan dems, and independents.
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11/17/2007 9:16:05 AM PST
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Tennessean4Bush
(An optimist believes we live in the best of all possible worlds. A pessimist fears this is true.)
To: Tennessean4Bush
oops, I meant Reagan dems.
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11/17/2007 9:16:30 AM PST
by
Tennessean4Bush
(An optimist believes we live in the best of all possible worlds. A pessimist fears this is true.)
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