Posted on 04/23/2008 3:22:25 PM PDT by Sub-Driver
April 23, 2008 Reid Statement On Nomination Of Gen. Petraeus To Centcom Commander
Washington, DC—Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid made the following statement today in response to news that Gen. David Petraeus will be nominated as head of U.S. Central Command and Lt. Gen. Ray Odierno will be nominated to be top commander on the ground in Iraq:
“The next CENTCOM commander and field commander in Iraq will have to help the next President with a number of critically important challenges: making America more secure, restoring America’s power and influence in the world, fixing our costly strategy in Iraq, and articulating a more effective strategy for winning in Afghanistan and defeating Al Qaeda in Pakistan.
“Our ground forces’ readiness and the battles in Afghanistan and against al Qaeda in Pakistan have suffered as a result of the current costly Iraq strategy. These challenges will require fresh, independent and creative thinking and, if directed to by a new President, a commitment to implementing major changes in strategy.
“The Senate will carefully examine these nominations and I will be looking for credible assurances of a strong commitment to implementing a more effective national security strategy.”
He and Pelosi are such an embarrassment to this country.
BUT I hope they run head first over the cliff listening to their wacky base.
In plain language: "We dimocRATS expect the next Centcom Commander to abandon this foolishness in Iraq".
weasal
When he gets confirmed and if Hillary gets elected, I would bet that he resigns. If not, he will most likely be replaced with a political general that is a yes man for Clinton.
Nice to see the goalposts moved again.
When did HR get back from vacation and how is the investigation of him coming along?
Words fail to express the disgust I feel reading anything this a..hole says.
Dobn’t insult horses’ rear ends. At least what comes out of them has some use - gardening. You can’t say anything useful has EVER come out of Reid’s mouth.
and what about the Left "illegal war" cr@p? How would invading/attacking an allied nation be a good thing?
So is Sen. Reid suggesting that we invade Pakistan?
how easy it is to dismiss the senate majority leader’s position on anything,new ground.
Democrats don’t care what kind of commander you are. If you get a new position and your name has “General” in front of it, you better be of the right political persuasion. Abilty doesn’t count. Ideology wins.
IOW, only Clinton/Carter type Generals need apply.
I don’t even have to read it. I pretty much know what he’s gonna say. Harry Reid is a tiny little man. He is a scum and a bum.
And we all know, or should, how well Ioseb Vissarionovich Jugashvili's politically correct Generals worked out for him.
Ioseb Vissarionovich Jugashvili is more often known as Иосиф Сталин , (Joseph Stalin in the west)
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