Posted on 04/08/2008 11:43:53 PM PDT by Syncro
| Live-Blogging from Capitol Hill: General Petraeus Testimony |
| Written by Melanie Morgan | |
| Tuesday, 08 April 2008 | |
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Michelle Malkin is doing a stunning job of keeping track of the bloviating from Senate Democrats, heckling by CodePink, and the reports of REAL progress taking place in Iraq. Go here. Or click over to Sister Toldjah here. Ron Winter sums it with his withering criticism of Senator Carl Levin. Disgusting. Also, I got a call from Kristinn Taylor at FreeRepublic.com who brought a banner into the Senate chambers in D.C. It read "Thank You General Petraeus." Naturally, the Capitol police snatched his sign. And let the CodePinkos wave their anti-American banner that read "Bring the troops, home NOW!" Predictably, Senator Obama is now grabbing the spotlight by demanding that Americans negotiate with the terrorist government of Iran. This man is NOT fit to be our Commander-in-Chief. (via DrudgeReport)
Click here to watch the excerpt of todays Senate testimony. Sen. John Warner (R-VA): Can you now, just in simple language, tell us, yes, it is worth it and it is making us safer here at home? Gen. David Petraeus: Senator, I do believe it is worth it I took on the task, the privilege, of command of Multinational Force-Iraq, because I do believe that it is worth it and I do believe the interests there are of enormous importance, again, to our country, not just to the people of Iraq and the people of that region and the world. Sen. Warner: Mr. Ambassador, how do you answer? Is it providing greater security here at home? Ambassador Ryan Crocker: Sir, I will try to answer that at two levels. First, in the little over a year that I have been in Iraq we have seen a significant degradation of al Qaeda's presence and its abilities. Al Qaeda is our mortal and strategic enemy. So, to the extent that al Qaedas capacities have been lessened in Iraq, and they have been significantly lessened, I do believe that makes America safer. (Testimony before the Senate Armed Services Committee, 4/8/08 |
Gen. David Petraeus: Senator, I do believe it is worth it I took on the task, the privilege, of command of Multinational Force-Iraq, because I do believe that it is worth it and I do believe the interests there are of enormous importance, again, to our country, not just to the people of Iraq and the people of that region and the world.
Sen. Warner: Mr. Ambassador, how do you answer? Is it providing greater security here at home?
Ambassador Ryan Crocker: Sir, I will try to answer that at two levels. First, in the little over a year that I have been in Iraq we have seen a significant degradation of al Qaeda's presence and its abilities. Al Qaeda is our mortal and strategic enemy. So, to the extent that al Qaedas capacities have been lessened in Iraq, and they have been significantly lessened, I do believe that makes America safer.
(Testimony before the Senate Armed Services Committee, 4/8/08
"Thank You General Petraeus."Good sign, short and to the point.
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Scroll down for updates/liveblogging of hearing 2:45pm Eastern. Im adding some of the key slides Gen. Petraeus used in his testimony (thanks to Jack Holt). Click to enlarge:
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It read "Thank You General Petraeus."
Naturally, the Capitol police snatched his sign. And let the CodePinkos wave their anti-American banner that read "Bring the troops, home NOW!"
The Capitol polices' sole final role is to let drunken Kennedys drive,
and to let the Clinton mob remove just-cooling bodies.
There fixed it...
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