"If we don't change direction soon, we'll end up where we're going".
Professor Irwin Corey
Posted on 12/20/2007 5:55:02 PM PST by Recovering_Democrat
There are so many but I think deserve that honor so I nominate the US soldiers and sailors, Duncan Hunter and all those Putin has silenced.
Good point - and they are a bunch of good folks, that’s for sure!
FR Person Of The Year:
Military - GEN Petraeus
Allied Head of State - Nicolas Sarkozy
FReeper (multiple Nominees) - icwhatudo, jveritas, doug from upland, 68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub (posthumous)
Definetely General Petraeus. With an honorable mention to Laura Ingraham.
Well,that would be Jim Robinson.
I’ll make a (rare) defense of Time here. Vladimir Putin is an interesting choice, although not for the reasons specified therein. Time should have chosen such terrorists as Usama bin Laden, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, and Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in earlier years (2001, 2004, and 2006, respectively). The magazine purports to feature the person with the most influence over the events of the year with implications for the future. Time therefore should defend its nomination with a detailed description of how Putin’s Russia is pulling the strings in international affairs. Perhaps he is; I really don’t know. But Putin does have a decent case—far better than their usual slate of nominees, particularly last year’s “you.”
But General Petraeus actually belongs on this feature because his ascent has driven the pacification of al-Qaeda in Iraq and a limitation of Iranian influence therein. In so doing, he outwitted the Democrats in Congress who just conceded another tiny dose of essential funding without strings attached.
No restrictions, Varmint. Just suggestions. :) I am enjoying the conversation!
I should point out to you that if it wasn’t for President Bush’s standing firm against the use of stem cells, “those people” may never have felt the need to continue the research.
All of the above.
General Petraeus
I go with General Petraeus.
General David Petraeus
I second the motion for General Petraeus.
Me thinks we are just starting to hear about Putin. He is relatively young and in his prime.
"If we don't change direction soon, we'll end up where we're going".
Professor Irwin Corey
General Patraeus
Nicolas Sarkozy
John Bolton
Rush Limbaugh - who we take for granted
Thanks for the ping. I’ll read through the others nominees.
God Bless General Petraeus. Person of the Year 2007
Iraq Will Be Petraeus's Knot to Untie
Twice, accidents almost ended his career, or even his life. In 1991, as a battalion commander
at Fort Campbell, Ky., he was shot in the chest with an M-16 rifle when a soldier tripped during a training exercise.
Rushed into surgery at Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville, he underwent five hours of surgery by Bill Frist,
who a decade later became Senate majority leader.
While skydiving in 2000, Petraeus survived the abrupt collapse of his parachute 60 feet up.
His shattered pelvis was reassembled with a plate and long screws.
As commander of the 101st Airborne, Petraeus saw combat for the first time during the division's
drive up the Euphrates Valley, with sharp firefights in Najaf, Karbala and Hilla. But it was during the division's
subsequent occupation of Mosul and northern Iraq that he won widespread acclaim by resurrecting the local economy,
restoring services and preserving order with strategic force, which included killing Saddam Hussein's two sons.
Posters in the division bivouacs read:
"What have you done to win Iraqi hearts and minds today?"
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