Two of America??s finest career public servants, General David Petraeus and Ambassador Ryan Crocker, appeared before House and Senate committees this week to deliver their much anticipated independent reports to Congress and the American public on the current situation in Iraq. They offered realistic and cautiously optimistic war assessments, and impressed everyone other than those heavily invested in its failure. Furthermore their presentations have changed overall Iraq war debate dynamics and now have left many Democrats and their left-wing supporters struggling to regain their anti-war footing.

Anticipating Gen. Petraeus would bring some good news to the American public, Congressional Democratic war critics and their supporters launched strikes to besmirch his reputation by suggesting he was a liar and a puppet of an unpopular president. Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin said, ??By carefully manipulating the statistics, the Bush-Petraeus report will try to persuade us that violence in Iraq is decreasing.? Presidential aspirant Sen. Hillary Clinton said the report, ??intentionally exaggerates the surge??s success.? Rep. Rahm Emanuel said, ??We don??t need a report that wins the Nobel Prize for creative statistics or the Pulitzer for fiction.? And MoveOn.org published a full page ad in the New York Times stating, ??General Petraeus is likely to become General Betray Us.? It??s notable not one congressional Democrat repudiated the ad.

However, the greatest fear of Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and others who are invested in America??s defeat was expressed several months ago by Democratic Rep. Jim Clyburn who sagely noted that ??there??s a problem for Democrats if the surge works.?

By attempting to demonize a man of Gen. Patraeus??s character and aggressively pursuing a policy of failure Democrats may be engaging in an act of political suicide. A September 8, 2007 CBS/NY Times reported that the American public, by a 68 percent to 21 percent margin, trusts military commanders more than it trusts Congress to successfully resolve the Iraq war.
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The man was confirmed by unanimous vote to take the lead in Iraq and now that HIS plan is working the dems call him a liar? LMAO!!! Seems that the American public has more confidence in Patraeus than the leading bitchers in congress and senate.........CLASSIC!

BANG, BANG....they shoot themselves in the foot again. Maybe they should concentrate on where they receive their campaign contributions instead.

Have a good one!:s4:
Psycho4Bud Reviewed by Psycho4Bud on . Petraeus and Crocker's Honest Report Two of America??s finest career public servants, General David Petraeus and Ambassador Ryan Crocker, appeared before House and Senate committees this week to deliver their much anticipated independent reports to Congress and the American public on the current situation in Iraq. They offered realistic and cautiously optimistic war assessments, and impressed everyone other than those heavily invested in its failure. Furthermore their presentations have changed overall Iraq war debate dynamics Rating: 5