Lindsey... Gen Petreaus is NOT an elected official..he serves the President

[Peacetrain]

not the other way around.. Listening to Lindsey Graham on CNN.. you would think that Petreaus is President.

[Peacetrain]

1. Now Boehner is chiming in.. Obama better not draw down too fast

he and the congress are going to have a hissy fit in congress.. ayy yii yii

[Proud Liberal Dem]

4. They're never going to be satisfied with ANYTHING that OBAMA does period

He could keep all of the troops in Afghanistan and they'd STILL find SOMETHING to fault him with. :banghead: :argh:

[ClarkUSA]

9. Republicans and PUMAs are flip sides of the same dishonest coin.

So predictable. Always moving the goalpost and never giving credit.

Haters got to hate.

[lumpy]

2. Both the president and his appointed officials are supposed

to serve the PEOPLE.

[Proud Liberal Dem]

5. That's, of course, how it's supposed to work

It's not worked that way for so long that the Republicans aren't used to the concept.

[Proud Liberal Dem]

3. For us non-cable news freaks

What's he saying??? That we need to listen to General Patreaus and not sneeze unless he tells us too (in other words, we need to keep more troops there indefinitely? :shrug:)

[Peacetrain]

10. Just checking back in...sorry about that..CNN was interviewing Lindsey

right after the Presidents speech..and to his credit.. (which is quite unusual) when Lindsey G. started in with how wrong the President is with not listening to Petreaus and keeping troops in their longer.. Blitzer took him on.. with so few taliban in Afghanistan, do we need all these troops in.. etc etc.

[underpants]

6. Without civilian oversight of the military (as the founders clearly stated) you get Ariel Sharon

The Butcher Of Sabra And Chatila

[ClarkUSA]

7. He's being yanked from the field by Pres. Obama, too. Desk duty from now on...

... as head of the CIA. It's a demotion, for sure.

[Peacetrain]

11. good point.. I had not thought of it that way.

[DCBob]

8. So now the RW media machine goes into high gear to bash the President for being a peacemonger....

while at the same time getting bashed on the left for being a warmonger. It just makes your hair hurt sometimes!

[Peacetrain]

12. I know, my head is spinning when I flip from station to station..

it is hard to discern that the person they are talking about is one person..