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REPORT: General Petraeus To Quit As US Commander In Afghanistan
.businessinsider ^ | Feb 15, 2011

Posted on 02/15/2011 3:04:29 PM PST by VRWCTexan

General David Petraeus, the most celebrated American soldier of his generation, is to leave his post as commander of US and Nato forces in Afghanistan. The Times can reveal that the Pentagon aims to replace General Petraeus, who was appointed less than eight months ago, by the end of the year

Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/petraeus-out-2011-2#ixzz1E4UKvDdB

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TOPICS: Breaking News; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: afghanistan; generaldavidpetraeus; obama; petraeus; taliban; wot
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To: wintertime
**All** of the men under Patraeus fell under the command of Patraeus.

Neither of the men fell under Petraeus. They might have, had they deployed as ordered. But they didn't at the time they committed their infractions. So given that, what would you have had Petraeus do?

161 posted on 02/16/2011 7:07:34 AM PST by K-Stater
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To: K-Stater
Patraeus failed to defend the specific men and women under **his** command.

FACT: General Patraeus abandoned his responsibility to our nation's troops to assure that they were serving under a legitimately eligible Commander in Chief! That is **this** man's CHARACTER.

162 posted on 02/16/2011 7:16:14 AM PST by wintertime
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To: Cicero

It is looking like the last man to leave Vietnam to me. Dangerous, forgotten and futile.


163 posted on 02/16/2011 7:21:09 AM PST by Sequoyah101 (Half the people are below average.)
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To: Lancey Howard

Yep, I agree.

Not just Mullen but Gates too. I knew he was a company man as soon as his name came up.


164 posted on 02/16/2011 7:21:17 AM PST by xzins (Retired Army Chaplain & proud of it: Truly Supporting the Troops means praying for their Victory!)
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To: K-Stater; butterdezillion; r9etb; Steel Wolf; MichaelCorleone

Personally,...If for some unusual reason I should come into the company of any of our upper military, I will turn my back. I will not speak to them. I will leave. I will shun them.

I encourage other patriots and defenders of Article II, Section I, to do the same.


165 posted on 02/16/2011 7:22:34 AM PST by wintertime
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To: K-Stater; butterdezillion; r9etb; Steel Wolf; MichaelCorleone

Re: Upper Military
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

Please make that “highest” military. These are the guys that abandoned the troops under their command.

The men and women in our military deserve better than to be serving under a very likely usurper and the toadies who have said and done nothing about it.


166 posted on 02/16/2011 7:26:54 AM PST by wintertime
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To: wintertime

167 posted on 02/16/2011 7:44:54 AM PST by r9etb
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To: Gondring
Funny...he was in the war in 2003, but the COIN FM wasn't drafted until 2006. Did he have a time machine?!?

Not the information I have read. Not sure what source you are citing.

168 posted on 02/16/2011 7:48:13 AM PST by SoldierDad (Proud dad of an Army Soldier preparing to deploy to Afghanistan)
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To: Cicero
About all I can tell from the reports is that the body count keeps going up, and we don’t really seem to be winning anything or getting anywhere. McCrystal and Petraeus are both very capable leaders for this kind of war, but I think their hands have been tied.

Our troops aren't allowed to "offend" the enemy in any way. There's no way we can win a politically correct war. Political correctness sees the enemy as the "victim."

169 posted on 02/16/2011 7:53:13 AM PST by concerned about politics ("Get thee behind me, Liberal")
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To: r9etb

Wow! Such a mature and thoughtful response! Such intellectual depth! /s


170 posted on 02/16/2011 8:01:27 AM PST by wintertime
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To: wintertime
Wow! Such a mature and thoughtful response! Such intellectual depth! /s

Like for like. Your thoughts on this issue are stupid.

171 posted on 02/16/2011 8:05:40 AM PST by r9etb
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To: Thunder90
The US is one of only a handful of countries that allow their soldiers to vote in elections. In most European countries, when someone becomes a soldier, they give up their right to vote.

And the Dems do everything in their power to ensure that the votes of American servicemen overseas don't count.

172 posted on 02/16/2011 8:22:24 AM PST by FDNYRHEROES (In just His first 3 days, the War on Terror became the War on Free Speech.)
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To: BlackjackPershing

Out of curiousity, General Pershing...would you vote for Petreaus if he turns out to be a Democrat???

There’s banter back oand forth on this thread that Gen’l Petreaus is a RINO, or a Dem, or voted for Obama, or whatever. Personally, that’s the first I’ve heard of any of that.

It poses a problem for me voting for him, for sure, if this is true. While I applaud his military service to the country and hold him in pretty high regard, the Dems policy positions are, to say the least, NOT in the best American interests... So if true, what does that say about his judgement in aligning himself with the Party that’s doing eveything possible to wreck the country and turn us into a socialist sh*thole?? It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to read the communist party platform and compare it to the democrat platform and do a quick comparison...and come up seeing them both pointing in the same direction...

Anybody else care to comment? It would seem to be an important point to consider if he does run.

And for the record, I’m not calling him a “traitor” or anything like that - I don’t know the man, I don’t know his heart, and all I know of him is as a good general officer that cares about his troops, doing his duty as he sees fit, for a clueless, seditious “commander” in chief who hates the country.


173 posted on 02/16/2011 9:14:40 AM PST by NFHale (The Second Amendment - By Any Means Necessary.)
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To: Recovering Ex-hippie

Yep. Any exposure to the West would get you a minimum of a five or tenner.

Poor bastards.


174 posted on 02/16/2011 9:14:54 AM PST by rlmorel (Now I have to change this tagline: "Weakness is provocative." Donald Rumsfeld)
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To: manc

Good point.


175 posted on 02/16/2011 9:26:00 AM PST by Jane Austen (Boycott the Philadelphia Eagles!)
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To: Cementjungle

The only way he can spill the beans about 0 is to resign from the service.


176 posted on 02/16/2011 9:44:21 AM PST by chooseascreennamepat
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To: rlmorel

THAT was not the issue.

Stalin told all his troops they were not to surrender, or he would kill them when they came back.

the Germans had Stalin’s son captured and wanted to make a prisoner swap and Stalin said, “no. He never should have allowed himself to be captured!”


177 posted on 02/16/2011 9:51:54 AM PST by Recovering Ex-hippie
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To: VRWCTexan

General Petraeus visited troops recently and was briefed in Eastern Afghanistan while visiting FOBs and COPs where our soldiers are winning the hearts and minds of Afghans and exterminating the Taliban. My son met him personally and says General P is amazing. I believe him. He indeed would be a Commander in Chief to be proud of. What a glorius day for America to have a leader with such integrity and honor leading our country. He is also well-educated in economics. Of course, the media will try to tear him apart if he puts his name in, but he rises above politics and teleprompters.


178 posted on 02/16/2011 9:57:13 AM PST by campg
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To: VRWCTexan
It seems the rumors were correct.
179 posted on 02/16/2011 1:08:31 PM PST by Liberty Valance (Keep a simple manner for a happy life :o)
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To: ViLaLuz
If I recall correctly, he was for allowing open homosexuality in the armed forces, too.

Yup. Also remember that senior military officers who run for high office tend to have already been vetted by the Council on Foreign Relations for their pro globalist viewpoint. He'd be a NWO poster child and fully invested in anti-Freedom legislation like the UN Gun Bans. Being a good military commander in no way presumes a POTUS for the people. Quite the reverse.

180 posted on 02/16/2011 1:19:01 PM PST by ExSoldier ("Life without God is like an unsharpened pencil: It has no point.")
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