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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: hosepipe

I don’t think that warning us that your posts are peppered with a dose of hyperbole ameliorates your use of the word “traitor” to describe General Petraeus. Surely there are less offensive ways for you to express your disappointment with him.


41 posted on 02/15/2011 4:05:52 PM PST by AuH2ORepublican (If a politician won't protect innocent babies, what makes you think that he'll protect your rights?)
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To: who_would_fardels_bear

Forget it. What a joke. Never gonna happen. Geesh.


42 posted on 02/15/2011 4:06:53 PM PST by dforest
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To: DarthVader

Glad to read that.


43 posted on 02/15/2011 4:07:12 PM PST by meatloaf
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To: kalee

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.


44 posted on 02/15/2011 4:08:59 PM PST by Thunder90 (Fighting for truth and the American way... http://citizensfortruthandtheamericanway.blogspot.com/)
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To: VRWCTexan

Maybe he just doesn’t agree with Gates’ rush to get the queers on board. Or maybe it’s the ROEs. With this administration, it could be any number of things.

At any rate, I doubt this was ocommie’s idea. I think we would have heard rumblings in advance like we did with McCrystal and others.

Just because Petraeus is bailing on ocommie, I don’t think means he’s running for office. I can think of a thousand reasons to want to get shed of ocommie.


45 posted on 02/15/2011 4:12:45 PM PST by ratsreek
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To: AuH2ORepublican

Dittoes.


46 posted on 02/15/2011 4:15:21 PM PST by Mr. Lucky
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To: VRWCTexan

No doubt that he cannot stomach whatever Obama is asking him to do.


47 posted on 02/15/2011 4:16:06 PM PST by Revel
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To: pissant
Running for office, I presume?

Possibly helping the Hillary Clinton campaign?

48 posted on 02/15/2011 4:17:25 PM PST by Gondring (Paul Revere would have been flamed as a naysayer troll and told to go back to Boston.)
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To: pissant

If you liked McCain you’ll love Petraeus.


49 posted on 02/15/2011 4:19:39 PM PST by PaleoBob
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To: VRWCTexan

Obama is insisting on some stupid and dangerous policy in Afghanistan... that will make him look good in the press.
Probably surrender.

Good for The General. Done a fine job considering the ‘support’ he had.


50 posted on 02/15/2011 4:21:49 PM PST by mrsmith
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To: VRWCTexan
He didn't do an interview with Rolling Stone did he?
51 posted on 02/15/2011 4:23:40 PM PST by americanophile ("The Constitution is the guide which I will never abandon." - George Washington)
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To: VRWCTexan

POTUS run?


52 posted on 02/15/2011 4:24:50 PM PST by Mariner (USS Tarawa, VQ3, USS Benjamin Stoddert, NAVCAMS WestPac, 7th Fleet, Navcommsta Puget Sound)
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To: NailInACoffin
Petraeus was brilliant in Iraq as a counter-insurgency leader

Yes, after screwing up so badly at first, he made huge necessary adjustments in his approach (unlike, for example, Sec. Rumsfeld, who continued to think in an offensive-operations mindset while denying the existence of the insurgency!).

He listened to the captains and majors and sergeants who saw the problems and solutions, not the birds and stars who gauged performance by how many US taxpayer dollars they could hand out.

53 posted on 02/15/2011 4:25:22 PM PST by Gondring (Paul Revere would have been flamed as a naysayer troll and told to go back to Boston.)
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To: Innovative

This makes a lot of sense and was my first thought. The man is there to win wars. Use the military to defeat the enemy not hold hands and sing kumbaya.
It is not Obama’s style and his hands were probably tied. I am sure that he no more wants to sit there and watch us lose a war than he wants to see Americans die while Obama tries to figure out what it means to be the commander in chief.


54 posted on 02/15/2011 4:28:27 PM PST by Munz (All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent.)
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To: VRWCTexan

Headline’s misleading. He’s not quitting, the Pentagon wants to replace him. He’s been on the front lines a long time.


55 posted on 02/15/2011 4:28:58 PM PST by popdonnelly (If Obama improves education, who'll vote for him?)
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To: VRWCTexan

Who wants to lead when you’ve been directed to fail?


56 posted on 02/15/2011 4:29:42 PM PST by Uncle Miltie ("And did you exchange a walk on part in a War, for a lead role in a cage?")
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To: therightliveswithus
This could be very bad news...

For who?

We're done in Afghanistan. If Petraeus stays, the end of the misadventure will be his.

57 posted on 02/15/2011 4:32:51 PM PST by Jim Noble (House GOP: If you can't stand the heat, get out of the kitchen.)
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To: ObamaMustGo2012

Agreed. Petraeus is not being given the freedom to implement his strategy, but instead is being ordered to follow a plan that has no hope of success. I was surprised he stuck with it this long.


58 posted on 02/15/2011 4:33:24 PM PST by Hoodat (Yet in all these things we are more than conquerors through Him who loved us. - (Rom 8:37))
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To: Cicero
I really get the feeling that this has turned into a meaningless war, where our troops are getting killed for nothing, and where the ROEs don’t really even permit them to defend themselves.

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.

I hate to say it for the troops sake but you're likely right. The past 20 years especially the past ten have not been good years for our armed forces. PC ran war has done some very major damage to our own side. It's our own elected leadership in DC on both sides of the party aisle doing that damage.

59 posted on 02/15/2011 4:38:49 PM PST by cva66snipe (Two Choices left for U.S. One Nation Under GOD or One Nation Under Judgment? Which one say ye?)
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To: VRWCTexan

It was reported some time ago he may have a cancer.


60 posted on 02/15/2011 4:39:08 PM PST by bushpilot1
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