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DeepModem Mom (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jan-06-07 02:47 AM Original message |
NYT: "General Petraeus is expected to back a rapid five-brigade expansion...as quickly as possible" |
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Erika (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jan-06-07 02:53 AM Response to Original message |
1. Let's have George P, Nicole, and the W twins leading it n/t |
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nadinbrzezinski (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jan-06-07 02:55 AM Response to Reply #1 |
2. CiC please take point |
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Cooley Hurd (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jan-06-07 02:58 AM Response to Original message |
3. Isn't going to take a while to pull 5 brigades... |
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illinoisprogressive (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jan-06-07 03:00 AM Response to Original message |
4. this is why he was chosen. But, do we have them in the first place |
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nadinbrzezinski (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jan-06-07 03:01 AM Response to Reply #4 |
5. We do |
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Erika (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jan-06-07 03:12 AM Response to Reply #5 |
6. True. W can further extend the troops time in Iraq |
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DoYouEverWonder (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jan-06-07 11:19 AM Response to Reply #5 |
21. Everyone I know that's in the military right now |
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jackbourassa (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jan-06-07 07:15 AM Response to Original message |
7. If Bush has his way with this surge... |
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theHandpuppet (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jan-06-07 07:29 AM Response to Original message |
8. Methinks Gen. Petreaus fancies himself Gen. Pretorius |
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Canuckistanian (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jan-06-07 10:40 AM Response to Reply #8 |
13. Let's hope he's not a Captain Ramius |
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Poiuyt (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jan-06-07 10:43 AM Response to Reply #8 |
14. No such luck. Pretorius's only vice was gin. |
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Hubert Flottz (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jan-06-07 11:11 AM Response to Reply #8 |
19. General Betray-us? |
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tom_paine (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jan-06-07 08:01 AM Response to Original message |
9. Busheviks purge like Khruschev |
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Toots (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jan-06-07 09:34 AM Response to Original message |
10. It sounds to me like the blood lust is still intense in the Bush* Administration |
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DoYouEverWonder (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jan-06-07 11:21 AM Response to Reply #10 |
22. They will never have enough |
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alcibiades_mystery (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jan-06-07 09:37 AM Response to Original message |
11. Ay yay yay |
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annabanana (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jan-06-07 10:53 AM Response to Reply #11 |
17. (yes. . . . sigh.) More men = more blood. . . . . . n/t |
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stray cat (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jan-06-07 10:37 AM Response to Original message |
12. So far he seems to have been the most competent leader in Iraq |
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Spazito (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jan-06-07 11:16 AM Response to Reply #12 |
20. Given General Petraeus did not succeed in his previous |
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Adelante (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jan-06-07 08:30 PM Response to Reply #20 |
26. He's talking about Mosul |
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Spazito (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jan-06-07 08:34 PM Response to Reply #26 |
28. Ahhh, but his responsibilities went beyond Mosul from what I |
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Adelante (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jan-06-07 08:39 PM Response to Reply #28 |
30. Yes, I agree on that point |
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Adelante (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jan-06-07 08:49 PM Response to Reply #12 |
31. Petraeus should have had Bremer's job |
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KittyWampus (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jan-06-07 10:48 AM Response to Original message |
15. The Name Petraeus sounds ominously like an ancient Roman Commander from Imperial Rome |
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kineneb (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jan-06-07 11:58 AM Response to Reply #15 |
24. Try: Publius Quintilius Varus |
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KittyWampus (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jan-06-07 08:19 PM Response to Reply #24 |
25. You're the kind of geek that I like. That is way cool! going †o read your link |
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pwb (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jan-06-07 10:48 AM Response to Original message |
16. buh wants a general he can threaten to fire. |
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Azathoth (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jan-06-07 11:02 AM Response to Original message |
18. So Bush fires a general who disagrees with him, and appoints a new one who tells him what he wants |
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teamster633 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jan-06-07 11:41 AM Response to Reply #18 |
23. Yup. Who have thunk it? |
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MiniMe (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jan-06-07 08:30 PM Response to Original message |
27. Well, he name sounds like "Betray Us" |
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Tierra_y_Libertad (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jan-06-07 08:39 PM Response to Original message |
29. General George Armstrong Petraeus? |
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