Category: Gen. David Petraeus
By Rabble Rouser Reverend Amy on May 9, 2011 in Al Qaeda, CIA, Chicago politics, Commander in Chief, Congress (House & Senate), Counterterrorism, Current Affairs, Federal Agencies, Cabinets and Departments, Flip Flopping, Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy, Gen. David Petraeus, Governance, Hoodwinking, Muslims & Arabs, National Defense, National Security, Pakistan, Pandering, Pentagon, President Barack Obama, Richard Daley, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, Valerie Jarrett | View Comments
“The operation was at this time effectively unknown to President Barack Obama or Valerie Jarrett and it remained that way until AFTER it had already been initiated. President Obama was literally pulled from a golf outing and escorted back to the White House to be informed of the mission. Upon his arrival there was a [...]
By Rabble Rouser Reverend Amy on Dec 7, 2009 in Afghanistan, Al Qaeda, Current Affairs, Flag officers, Foreign Policy, Gen. David Petraeus, George Bush, Germany, Pandering, President Barack Obama, Qualifications, Soldiers/Veterans, United Kingdom | View Comments
^ ^ ^ bumped up ^ ^ ^ So the other night, Obama had his big Afghanistan speech. Finally, after months of waiting for a decision regarding the request by General McChrystal, Obama laid out his plan, pretty much what had been telegraphed to us before the speech (yet, he still had to get in [...]
By John Batchelor on Apr 10, 2009 in "Blackhawk Down", Foreign Policy, Gen. David Petraeus, Pentagon, Piracy, President Barack Obama, Somalia, United Nations | View Comments
Blackhawk Down In Deep Water. Suddenly the Obama administration has a foreign policy problem that does not permit simple blame-shifting to the previous presidency, and the problem has the face of the worthy Maersk Alabama’s Captain Richard Phillips. Joe Biden knows this is alarming and ignored his smug aide to comment that DNI Blair [...]
By SusanUnPC on Jul 21, 2008 in ABC News, Barack Obama, Commander in Chief, Gen. David Petraeus, Iraq, Pentagon | View Comments
ABC News correspondent Terry Moran interviewed Barack Obama who got a bit testy during the exchange. “And then we sat down with [Barack Obama] to talk about what has become an open disagreement between military commanders here and Obama, over his plan to withdraw all U.S. combat troops from Iraq on a 16-month timetable.” — [...]
By Ray McGovern on May 20, 2008 in Anti-Semitism, CIA, Commander in Chief, Dick Cheney, Flag officers, Gen. David Petraeus, Intelligence, Iran, Israel, Media, Media Bias, Nancy Pelosi, New York Times, Nuclear weapons, Pentagon, U.S. Constitution | View Comments
To Admiral William Fallon (USN ret.), With Respect (Open Appeal for Straight Talk on Iran) By Ray McGovern May 19, 2008 Dear Admiral Fallon: I have not been able to find out how to reach you directly, so I have drafted this letter in the hope it will come to your attention. First, thank you [...]
By SusanUnPC on Apr 8, 2008 in Bush/Cheney, Gen. David Petraeus, Hillary Clinton, Iraq, Media | View Comments
“Clinton Ready for Petraeus Hearing,” reports CBS News’s blog. Hillary Clinton takes time out from the campaign trail to question the country’s top general in Iraq, at a scheduled hearing of the Senate Armed Services Committee today. A senior aide tells CBS News that Clinton will “really press” Gen. David Petraeus and Amb. Ryan Crocker [...]
By Ray McGovern on Mar 31, 2008 in Bush/Cheney, Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy, Gen. David Petraeus, Iran, Iraq, Israel | View Comments
By Ray McGovern Events of last week offer a metaphorical glimpse at the delusion pervading President George W. Bush’s White House and other enclaves of Iraq supporters in Washington. Bush and the First Lady spent last Monday clowning with the Easter Bunny (White House counsel Fred Fielding having donned the costume). At the American Enterprise [...]
By Ray McGovern on Mar 26, 2008 in Bush/Cheney, CIA, Colin Powell, Foreign Affairs, Gen. David Petraeus, Intelligence, Iraq, Israel | View Comments
Frontline: Too Timid, Too Little, Too Late: Frontline’s “Bush’s War” on PBS Monday and Tuesday evening was a nicely put-together rehash of the top players’ trickery that led to the attack on Iraq, together with the power-grabbing, back-stabbing, and limitless incompetence of the occupation.
By SusanUnPC on Sep 24, 2007 in Bush/Cheney, Gen. David Petraeus, Iraq | View Comments
UPDATE: I fixed the blog clock to reflect Eastern Standard Time, which means that your new comments will appear towards the top of the thread. Last night, I cracked open the Sept. 24 issue of The New Yorker my daughter brought me. Every time I spot a commentary by Steve Coll in a New Yorker [...]
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