Posted on 09/16/2007 4:46:43 AM PDT by Kaslin
The Democraticans who were taking offense at the findings and beliefs of General Petraeus were showing the same lack of sympathy for viewpoints differing from there own, as those expressed twenty years ago when Lt. Col. Oliver North appeared before a similar committee meeting.
When Ollie replied to a charge that the committee was in possession of some very damaging documents, he was supposed to have said, “There were some documents we DIDN’T destroy?”
The committee members were supposedly so thunderstruck at this mock revelation, it nearly stopped the hearing.
Some people just deserve to get their chain yanked repeatedly.
God was smilin’ upon the General in that hearing. In the video they couldn’t fix the microphones.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bvj7WCfPNWQ
The only ones that worked were the Congresscritter’s mics. Ike Skelton’s mic is hot and picks up him calling the demonstrators a**holes! Duncan Hunter is doing a symptom analysis on the mic problem! (Speaking to Ike, “Probably one of those feauxtographers knocked the microphones jack out.”) That is sweet!
Forrest Gump said it best: "Stupid is as stupid does"...
The General is a DEMOCRAT also. These Traitor Democrats want AMerica BEATEN by the terrorists just so they can regain the Presidency!! And it will work...sadly.
Only by comparing the tactics of the anti-war media, politicians and activists to Al Quada can you see how closely they are aligned.
The left believes by constantly attacking our military and President during a time of war will eventually turn the majority of Americans to their side.
Al Quada believes the same.
The primary goal of the left is to regain power. The same for Al Quada.
If they are both successful, we will be praying 5 times. Because foreign policy under the left is Bribery and blackmail.
Petraeus is a brilliant General and great American.
What a bad week for the Left.
God help this country if they get the presidency back and the clear majority in the House and Senate. If that happens then this great country is cooked.
Don’t you think this country is already cooked? Think about it when 50% of this country is socialist leftists. Further for you to consier let’s say you get the President of your choice do you really think that one person can turn this whole mess around. I say that because “we” had a Republican President with a Republican Senate and Congress and what did we accomplish?
"...prompting the Democratic chairman of the House Armed Service Committee, Rep. Ike Skelton of Missouri, to utter a profanity that was picked up by his microphone."
Unbelievable! Nothing defines and exposes the level of incompetence in congress better than this video.
Even with months to prepare and millions of dollars to spend These people can't even properly organize and conduct a hearing on the most important issue of the time.
Is there any question as to why they can't legislate intelligently?
The assumption there being that these gentlemen would be unfairly concocting scenarios to tie fringe extremists to otherwise gravitas-filled Democrat politicians in order to score political points, when actually Code Pink is right in the mainstream of Democrat thinking, these days.m ;)
...And its gonna get worse,I predict!
They are simple attention whores. The way that they marched out way ahead of the other marchers dancing around and asking for taunts...well, their signs should just say: LOOK AT ME!
This was run by the people that want to tell the military how to run the war. They can’t even get a hearing to run smoothly and that’s what the do every day.
I heard that months ago.
“The General is a DEMOCRAT also”
I have not heard that.
And if he was, I doubt he will be anymore after how they treated him.
ROTL. Who could ever forget the Adam Clymer incident or Hitlery’s National Anthem rendition. Microphones have their way of bringing it all out!
” Activists from Code Pink repeatedly interrupted their testimony, prompting the Democratic chairman of the House Armed Service Committee, Rep. Ike Skelton of Missouri, to utter a profanity that was picked up by his microphone.”
Immediately after cursing the protesters, Skelton chats with Duncan Hunter on how to deal with any further disruptions.
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