Right Wing Lunatic

Well the day has finally arrived and General Petraeus now has to go in front of Congress and give his report on the situation in Iraq.  Cpan is going to be covering the event live, so here's a link to that.  I believe it's starting at 12:30 Pacific Standard Time.

Of course, the liberals out there are already decrying his thoughts and position:

Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-California, told "Fox News Sunday" that Petraeus' position of authority in Iraq clouds his view.

"General Petraeus is there to succeed," Feinstein said. "I don't think he's an independent evaluator."

General Petraeus also knows that to lie to Congress is not only a crime, but it's dishonorable to do so.  To question his character BEFORE you even get a chance to hear him out shows great disrespect towards a man that Democrats said that they would listen to just a few short months ago when they thought they'd get the guy to echo their sentiments.  Now that he's not, they are attacking him at every angle. 

Republican Sen. Arlen Specter -- who opposed sending additional troops to Iraq -- said Sunday he intends to examine Petraeus' testimony.

"We're going to look behind the generalizations that Gen. Petraeus or anybody gives us and probe the very hard facts to see exactly what the situation is," the Pennsylvania lawmaker said on CNN's "Late Edition."

"Unless we see some light at the end of the tunnel here, very closely examining what Gen. Petraeus and others have to say, I think there's a general sense that there needs to be a new policy."

Sounds fair to me.  Look at the evidence, if something's working, keep at it.  If not, try something else.  Where's the problem with that?  But even ordinary American's aren't as open minded as that:

A CNN/Opinion Research Corp. poll taken last month found about two-thirds of Americans -- 64 percent -- oppose the Iraq war, and 72 percent say even if Petraeus reports progress, that won't change their opinion.

So 72% of Americans have made up their mind and won't even consider the option of finishing up the job in Iraq.  Those same 72% will scream out for answers if Iraq becomes a terrorist wasteland and attacks on American originate from there.  You don't have to believe me.  Just look it up.  Everywhere after 9/11 people wanted answers.  "Why weren't the dots connected?"  A fair question, but then when you give them the answer, they seem dumbfounded.  "You mean Clinton was too involved in the Monica scandal to defend America from a known threat??" 

Hell, even one of the posters on the article "Chris" doesn't seem to get it:

This is ridiculous. When will people stop looking at numbers. This is about lives, both American and Iraqi, that are being thoughtlessly lost. Here's an idea: Leave the country and see if violence goes down. It probably will.

So he's willing to leave Iraq and just "hope for the best".  He's willing to risk American and Iraqi lives on a "probably will".  That's not long term thinking and it certainly isn't something that wouldn't come back and bite us in the ass.

Travis

travis@rightwinglunatic.com

Labels: General Petraeus, iraq

# posted by Travis @ 10:03 AM