“I have every belief that this good man, General Petraeus, will give us what he feels is the right thing to do in this report, that is now not his report,” said Senator Harry Reid of Nevada, the majority leader. “It’s President Bush’s report. President Bush took final ownership of this when he landed in Anbar Province just a few days ago.”
The White House clearly wants General Petraeus, the top American military commander in Iraq, and Ryan C. Crocker, the American ambassador to Iraq, who will testify with him on Capitol Hill, to be seen as independent — a professional soldier and field commander accompanied by a professional diplomat.
But that effort seemed to be undercut Thursday when White House officials disclosed that General Petraeus had told Mr. Bush that he would be willing to withdraw about 4,000 troops in January as a WTF????? symbolic gesture.WTF?????? Some lawmakers seemed unhappy to be learning of the general’s recommendations before his appearance. And Democrats reacted tepidly to that proposal on Friday, saying they would continue to push for a major shift in war strategy.
“We have heard some things today, that they may have a small recommendation to bring home a couple thousand troops,” Senator Reid said, noting that Congress had received several other assessments of the war, including one by the Government Accountability Office and another by a commission led by a retired Marine general, James L. Jones.
“The G.A.O. report, (11 of 18 benchmarks UNMET) the Jones report, the Bush report which Petraeus will report on sometime next week — it’s very clear that every one of those reports, every one of them without exception, does not accomplish what the president promised the surge would do, and that is bring about political stability in Iraq,” Senator Reid said.
“But if you look on the ground in Iraq,” he continued, “we’re still losing troops; today, seven. I have to go make three calls back to people in Nevada, this afternoon, of families who have lost loved ones in Iraq.
“So if you look on the ground, you find the war is still an intractable civil war. You find that the war is now costing us $3 billion a week. The wounded and maimed are going up every day.”
Meantime, back at the ranch Republicans, meanwhile, insisted again on Friday, as they have for weeks, that they would wait to hear the full report from General Petraeus before drawing conclusions about what changes might be needed in Iraq.
Since when does a SYMBOLIC GESTURE become part of the fabric of a discussion pertaining to life or DEATH?? War or PEACE?
WTF is this guy talking about???
Does he mean a 'hoodwinking' gesture??
Maybe.
I think we need some symbolic resignations. And some symbolic IMPEACHMENTS.
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