Petraeus Hearing

Anyone with chronic insomnia or a persistent sleep disorder may want to tune in right now to the opening remarks.

 

We've got the lies and the videotape.

Hold the sex, please.

 

It would be funny if he would open his remarks with:

"Hey, what's up? You guys wanted to talk to me about something?"

 

That his microphone doesn't work is an apt metaphor. For something.

 

If you want to know more about him, read Rick Atkinson's In the Company of Soldiers, about the first year or so of the war.

 

I'll just wait for the honest version over on Fox, thanks.

 

They've been at it for what, 90 minutes, and Petraeus hasn't had a chance to speak.

Nice of the Dem who led off the proceedings to basically call him a liar too.

 

Charts! Graphs! Kinetics! Serious! Frustrating!

 

So the violence has come down and security has improved. How has the Iraqi government taken advantage of those facts?

 

Yes, sectarian violence has gone down at the same time that the criteria for classifying violence as sectarian have changed. Remember that bomb that killed 400 or so people? Not sectarian, therefore it doesn't count.

Also, shot in the back of the head? Sectarian.
Shot in the forehead? Not.

 

How "basically"?
Which Democratic politician did that?
Please show your work.
And, yes, Patraeus has inherent credibility problems that pre-date this hearing.

 

Lantos.

He ended his opening screed with the words "I don't buy it."

Gee Tom, maybe you should listen to him first.