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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: VRWCTexan

I knew from the time Obama picked him they were setting him up to fail and be discredited. And lo and behold. I see this.


21 posted on 02/15/2011 3:25:40 PM PST by dforest
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To: VRWCTexan

His tenure in Afghanistan had to be for a limited time, because he has already had his turn at the helm, and then some. Let’s keep in mind that he took a demotion to replace Stanley McCrystal, and I’m certain General Petraeus is looking forward to spending some time with the grandkids.


22 posted on 02/15/2011 3:26:42 PM PST by Bean Counter (Stout Hearts...)
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To: VRWCTexan

Moochele will take the job and attempt to “get Afghans moving”!


23 posted on 02/15/2011 3:28:34 PM PST by albie
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To: VRWCTexan

Mystary solved — he is being fired because he wasn’t nice enough to the Taliban, he wanted to defeat them, instead of bowing to them.

See this article:

Afghanistan: Petraeus, personalities and policy

http://blogs.reuters.com/pakistan/2011/02/15/afghanistan-petraeus-personalities-and-policy/

“Petraeus, more than anyone else, has been identified with the intensified military campaign in Afghanistan which, according to critics of the policy, has reduced prospects of a political settlement by alienating Taliban leaders who might otherwise be coaxed into peace talks.

His departure, especially with Gates on his way out, could create the space for Obama to recalibrate Afghan strategy, backing away from the military surge and focusing more on a political settlement - if he wants to do so.”


24 posted on 02/15/2011 3:30:07 PM PST by Innovative (Weakness is provocative.)
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To: pissant
Running for office, I presume?
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

There is NO POSSIBLE WAY that I would vote for a man that let LTC Lakin and Major Cook swing slowly in the wind.

There is NO POSSIBLE WAY that I would vote for a man that allowed his troops to serve under a likely usurper posing as president and Commander in Chief.

While General Patraeus might be willing to fall on a grenade for his troops against a foreign enemy on foreign soil, I **seriously** doubt that he would defend the Constitution against a **domestic** enemy. Gee! doing that might hurt his career or pension. /s

25 posted on 02/15/2011 3:32:59 PM PST by wintertime
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To: Innovative

I guess they’ll have to fire his replacement too. (I know who it is) He is even meaner than Petraeus is.


26 posted on 02/15/2011 3:34:14 PM PST by DarthVader (That which supports Barack Hussein Obama must be sterilized and there are NO exceptions!)
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To: VRWCTexan

Palin/Petraeus 2012


27 posted on 02/15/2011 3:37:15 PM PST by who_would_fardels_bear
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To: VRWCTexan

Ugh... If this is true, then the situation in Afghanistan could be grim. Petraeus was brilliant in Iraq as a counter-insurgency leader. I have difficulty thinking of anyone who would do a better job. I have even less confidence in Obama in picking a replacement.


28 posted on 02/15/2011 3:41:37 PM PST by NailInACoffin
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To: nhwingut

My brother is a Colonel who he hadn’t voted in years. He said he was apolitical and answered to whomever was CIC. He did vote for McCain, but he said he didn’t think it would make much difference if Obama got elected. He was wrong and now he’s unhappy with Obama so he’s retiring. DADT did it.
BTW, he was on Petraeus’ staff.


29 posted on 02/15/2011 3:41:51 PM PST by kalee (The offences we give, we write in the dust; Those we take, we engrave in marble. J Huett 1658)
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To: DarthVader

We’re forgetting what Bob Woodward wrote in his book. He said that Obama wasn’t going to risk losing his base of left wing loons — I’m paraphrasing, I’m sure — over Afghanistan. Petreaus is a good military man, waging a war he’s not ALLOWED to win, seeing good men being killed and injured for no good reason, and he probably said, “F-— it, I’m not going to be a part of this anymore!”

I’d bet on it. No way he leaves a war un-won after only eight months in charge. That’s not his history; that’s not his style. This is an anti-Obama move if there ever was one.


30 posted on 02/15/2011 3:41:57 PM PST by ObamaMustGo2012 (Obama Must Go In 2012)
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To: nhwingut

And he voted for Obama in 2008.


31 posted on 02/15/2011 3:45:17 PM PST by BigSkyFreeper (You have entered an invalid birthday)
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To: albie

LOL


32 posted on 02/15/2011 3:46:39 PM PST by BigSkyFreeper (You have entered an invalid birthday)
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To: VRWCTexan

Ugh Oh!... He may be in Kansas again.. The Wizard of OZ.. may have been exposed as the slimy traitor he is..
..


33 posted on 02/15/2011 3:49:12 PM PST by hosepipe (This propaganda has been edited to include some fully orbed hyperbole....)
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To: VRWCTexan

The end of the year is a ways away


34 posted on 02/15/2011 3:49:38 PM PST by woofie
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To: VRWCTexan; All
The Washington Post had the scoop on Petraeus earlier today, but buried it:

But virtually the entire U.S. civilian and military leadership in Afghanistan is expected to leave in the coming months, including Ambassador Karl Eikenberry and the embassy's other four most senior officials, Gen. David H. Petraeus, commander of the U.S.-led international coalition, and Lt. Gen. David Rodriguez, who runs day-to-day military operations there.

SNIP

No final decisions have been made, but military officials said that Petraeus, who took command last July, will rotate out of Afghanistan before the end of the year.

SNIP

35 posted on 02/15/2011 3:49:44 PM PST by kristinn (Lowering the IQ on FR since Jul 31, 1998)
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To: BigSkyFreeper

And he voted for Obama in 2008.


Are you certain?


36 posted on 02/15/2011 3:54:07 PM PST by unkus
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To: kristinn
IOW "Peace With Honor"®
37 posted on 02/15/2011 3:54:07 PM PST by Anti-Bubba182
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To: Jane Austen

maybe he;s opposed as most vets and those serving are to the openly serving homosexuals


38 posted on 02/15/2011 3:59:13 PM PST by manc (Shame on all who voted for the repeal of DADT, who supported it or never tried to stop it. Traitors)
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To: unkus

I don’t think he voted for anyone in 2008 but I can’t verify it for sure.

http://askville.amazon.com/General-Petraeus-vote-Presidential-election/AnswerViewer.do?requestId=19533066


39 posted on 02/15/2011 4:04:29 PM PST by rfp1234 (Le Parti du The'. Ne marchez pas sur moi!)
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To: VRWCTexan

MAybe BO is going to make him chairman of the Joint Cheif of Staff?


40 posted on 02/15/2011 4:04:46 PM PST by Always Independent
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