Petraeus isn't a liar; when he says he hasn't sat down and spent any time...

[bridgit]

trying to figure out whether what he, or any of them are doing in Iraq, is making it any safer for America, and Americans; and that when he does he only does so so as to focus' on achieving "the mission", what the multi-national force is there to do, the mission they are there to accomplish...he has just told you the truth

The truth is that he, his president, his vice president's Halliburton & Lockheed-Martin, his Raytheon; they are not there to make America any safer

They are there spilling rivers of blood, and spending mountains of money in the pursuit of a nightmarish, Malthusian Dream-scape of geo-political acquisition of another's natural resources for the corporate gains of a few

They are there as security force to global-corporate oligarchs, not the least of which being the Bush family

They are there to bring chaos & instability to a futures & commodities market that thrives on chaos & instability

Absent any hint of a mission, they are there to kill things, and tear things up. And in that fog of war, make their war profits

By not answering any questions forthrightly in the course of showing disdain for their having been asked, Petraeus has, imo, told us the truth

[calimary]

1. Very good. All he knows, as you correctly point out, is to kill things and

tear things up. And beyond that, he's pretty much blind.

[Swamp Rat]

2. Same shit, different boss.

[immoderate]

3. Yep. Iraq is not a war, it's a HEIST! And very successful.

Iraq is one giant money laundry, with a feeding tube to suck our treasury dry.

--IMM

[bos1]

4. When I said this at the beginning people I knew got angry or

called me cynical. Now most recognize it for what it is -- a racket, as Gen. Smedley Butler said.

[bridgit]

5. Tony Blankley, of all people, calls it "riding to the sound of the guns"...

i've heard that line somewhere before, and of course he gives no clues as to just whom may be firing them, whom may be receiving shot, whom is the fodder & the what reasons, whom has sold them to whom & for what reason/profits, or whether they were illegally obtained off some black market somewhere...just there are is this "sound of guns somewhere...firing"

true neocon drivel, no context, only vacant poetries

[wiggs]

6. Petraeus is speaking only to his limited objective of

quelling the insurgency and improving security. He reports on progress in that context and most questioners, pundits, and journalists take his comments to mean that our overall mission in Iraq is becoming successful and is worthwhile.

You're right. The whole conversation is perverted from what it should be. Leaving aside that his statements of security progress are highly debatable, the questions are the wrong questions. Dodd hits on it this morning at HuffPo.

[bridgit]

8. that sounds right, even if this fiasco has lacked a homogeneous mission/view...

from the Gitmo, from bush, Rummy, Franks & Myers on up to any number of them till Petraeus...but i do think it's far scarier then Americans are able to admit when our top generals appear before congress and are already informing us & the world that they are 'only following orders'...i hope someone that still cares about the integrity of The Armed Forces of These United States of America is taking notes, cause they just look like excursionary corporate tools

[Hydra]

7. Imperial America

Coming to an oil rich country near you- we'll bring the soldiers and the nukes, and you can try and clean up afterward while we shoot you!