What's all this "Petraeus this , Petraeus that" shit? jr is the CIC, the "decider", right?

[The_Casual_Observer]

All of a sudden Petraeus is the de facto war czar, the guy who calls all the shots & makes irrevocable orders that are unchangeable by anybody or anything. Since when did we have a military coup around here?

[CrazyOrangeCat]

1. The deciderin' business is gettin' to be . . .

hard werk for Lil' Boots.

[LiberalFighter]

3. From all that dancing?

[CrazyOrangeCat]

4. He's a real piece of work . . .

[k8conant]

2. Shrub doesn't know what the hell he's doing half the time

and the other half of the time he does the wrong thing.

[pinkpops]

5. Bush says the Dems are micromanaging the military leaders,

as if it is they who set policy, but it is he and his evil uncle who are driving this jalopy.
This puts everyghing relating to anything to things they have done wrong into the passive voice they are so fond of using. ("Mistakes were made...")

[bdamomma]

6. petraeus is taking orders from bushie.

bushie will have Petraeus a$$ thrown out if he doesn't deliver.

[IDemo]

7. Somebody's gotta be the Blame Czar

[UTUSN]

8. I know. It's sort of a Greek thing. Greeks won wars. Something like that. n/t