Posted on 09/10/2007 9:03:16 AM PDT by CaptRon
Gen. Petraeus' report to Congress
(Excerpt) Read more at foxnews.com ...
I'd guess he is there to do a tap-dancing routine.
Tony Snow on Rush giving his personal opinion now that he isn’t in the White House.....commenting on Code Pinkos!
Zero but it will get out through other media sources and slowly as it does the leftist media will lose more and more credibility.
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Thanks Doug,
I called and told the fellow to thank Mr. Hunter for me and for the millions of Americans he speaks for,
I also told him Mr. Hunter had my vote long before this, he is a true American.
“They were, unfortunately, tolerated.”
Good. Every time one makes an ass of him/herself, we get a few more thousand swing voters.
I flipped to HLN - got a commercial.
Dems running this show. One thing is for certain. These are the people the insults represent. You can always count on Democrats and Radical Muslims to act like rabid dogs, foaming out the mouth.
Classless bunch of morons no matter how much money they have.
Drag them out by the hair, I don’t care.
If I were going to D.C. this coming weekend, I’d be lookin’ for ‘em...
I’d have a “message” to deliver...
Skeleton told the guard to remove the whole group over an hour ago ... but they are still there!
Almost from the very beginning of General Petrais's speech. Chairman Skeleton was saying some choice words not knowing it could be heard.
Crocker is putting me to sleep though. Not as stirring a the General.
http://video1.washingtontimes.com/fishwrap/2007/09/high_profile_congressional_tes.html
No leaks for Petraeus
High-profile congressional testimony is often previewed in front-page newspaper articles that are based on the witnesses’ written opening statements.
The statements usually are required to be submitted to a committee anywhere from 24 hours to 72 hours before the testimony is to be given — and sometimes are leaked by the committees to reporters.
There have been no leaks, however, of testimony being given today by Gen. David Petraeus, the top U.S. commander in Iraq, and U.S. Ambassador to Iraq Ryan Crocker.
That is because neither the general nor the ambassador submitted their testimony early, as we reported yesterday. White House officials say not even they have seen the statements, although President Bush did travel to Iraq last week to be briefed by Gen. Petraeus and Mr. Crocker.
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Bless you, Gen. Petraeus, Amb. Crocker .. the grownups are in town.
They were showing clips of the General and the protesters.
Ditto. My ADD kicked in and I was off surfing something else. Forgot I was even listening in.
David Petraeus: Profile of the New Iraq Commander
The son of a Dutch sea captain who took refuge in New York during World War II, Petraeus grew up in Cornwall on Hudson, a few miles outside the gates of the U.S. Military Academy, which he entered as a new cadet in July 1970. “A striver to the max, Dave was always ‘going for it’ in sports, academics, leadership, and even his social life,” the West Point yearbook noted in 1974. A month after graduation, he married Holly Knowlton, the daughter of the academy superintendent. They have two grown children.
As a young lieutenant, Petraeus entered an Army battered by defeat in Vietnam and badly frayed by drugs, lack of discipline and the American public’s diminished esteem for the military. Accolades and achievements followed as he moved from post to post. Petraeus received all three prizes awarded in his class at Ranger School, perhaps the Army’s toughest physical and psychological challenge, and he later won the George C. Marshall award as the top graduate in the Army Command and General Staff College class of 1983.
His intensity, cutting intellect and competitiveness have rubbed some officers the wrong way. Muttered jibes about “King David” have been heard around his command post. He remains obsessive about what he calls “the P.T. culture” — physical training — and has been known to challenge soldiers half his age to various athletic competitions. “If anyone beats him in the shorter runs, four miles or so, he takes them out for 10 miles and smokes them,” a staff officer observed several years ago. At 5-foot-9 and 155 pounds, Petraeus evokes George Bernard Shaw’s description of the British general Bernard L. Montgomery: “an intensely compacted hank of wire.”
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.
more here:
http://recong2.com/journal/david_petraeus_profile_of_the_new_iraq_commander
Was he tapping his foot in a normal manner or abnormal?
Not a problem. The one people were going to pay attention to was Gen. Petraeus, and he hit a grand slam.
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