Senator Bird is nobody. I agree with Robert. That was no question for a military leader. He is responsible for the war in Iraq, not Homeland Security. Perhaps they should have the Homeland Security Secretary testify to that question. Gen. Patraeus is doing his job in Iraq. Getting the job done and trying his hardest to send troops home. But I guess that is not good enough for the nay-Sayers. Fuck em. I am putting my money on Patraeus to get the job done and send the troops home. This morning on Fox News, Sen. Lieberman was on there and I liked what he said. Basically, forget why we went to Iraq in the first place. We are there and it is what it is. Get the job done. Don't concede to the terrorists. If we leave now, the terrorists win. I like that.
Bruce -----Original Message----- From: Dana Sent: Tuesday, September 11, 2007 5:46 PM To: CF-Community Subject: Re: Today's Patraeus: Wow. It's a question of military judgement asked of a military commander. My personal favorite (I was in and out but listened to a lot of it) was when he was asked if there was any evidence of a link between 9/11 and Iraq. To which he responded, not to my knowledge. And by the way -- kudos to Senator Byrd for cutting through a lot of the rhetoric and coming to the point. On 9/11/07, Robert Munn wrote: > That was a loaded question by a politician trying to score points. Petraeus > gave an honest answer. An even better answer would have been to say that > such political judgments were for the civilian leadership to make. > > The counter-question to Warner's question is this- if we change course and > pull out our troops, would America be less safe? Would America's national > security interests be harmed by a civil war in Iraq, or by a wider conflict > that draws in Turkey, Syria, Iran, and Saudi Arabia? ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Get involved in the latest ColdFusion discussions, product development sharing, and articles on the Adobe Labs wiki. http://labs/adobe.com/wiki/index.php/ColdFusion_8 Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/message.cfm/messageid:242205 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5
