‘Tell the Truth, General!’ Anti-War Protesters Demand

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‘Tell the Truth, General!’ Anti-War Protesters Demand
by Monisha Bansal

Capitol Hill - Anti-war protesters interrupted Gen. David Petraeus’ much-anticipated report to Congress on Monday concerning progress in Iraq. They urged the general to tell the truth. But one of the protest leaders told Cybercast News Service that Petraeus’ testimony was irrelevant.

“I am anxious to be here when Petraeus gives his report because we want him to know, and we want Congress to know, and we want the American people to know that we don’t believe the rosy picture that he’s going to be painting,” Medea Benjamin, co-founder of the anti-war group Code Pink, said before the start of the joint House Foreign Affairs and Armed Service Committee hearing on Monday.



“The American people are tired of this war no matter what Petraeus says,” Benjamin said. “We want our troops to come home.”

“He can say things are getting better - if they’re getting better, then let’s leave,” she said. “He could say things are not very good, and we could say if things are not very good, then we shouldn’t be there.

“No matter what he says, our message actually reflects what the American people think, which is that we should leave,” Benjamin added.

Rep. Tom Lantos (D-Calif.), chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, said Petraeus had “been sent here to restore credibility to a discredited policy.”

“We and the American people already know that the situation in Iraq is grim, and a growing majority of this Congress and of the American people want our troops out,” he said. “The administration’s myopic policies in Iraq have created a fiasco.

“We cannot take any of this administration’s assertions about Iraq at face value anymore,” Lantos said. “The fact remains that the president has sent you here today to convince … Congress that victory is at hand - I don’t buy it.”

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[bdamomma]

1. tell it Rep. Lantos

that is our money and our sons and daughters,fathers and mothers that are fighting this illegal and unneeded invasion. Invasion pre emptive invasion.

[Joanne98]

2. K&R!