Posted on 09/07/2013 1:34:55 PM PDT by jimbo123
Retired Army Gen. David H. Petraeus, former CIA director under President Barack Obama, called strongly Saturday for Congress to back the White House on Syria, declaring that military action against the regime is “necessary” to deter “Iran, North Korea and other would-be aggressors.”
“Failure of Congress to approve the president’s request would have serious ramifications not just in the Mideast but around the world,” Petraeus said in a four-sentence statement provided to POLITICO.
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I think the Petraeus blackmail has to do with all of the classified documents he sent to his girlfriends and the associated emails. Must have been something that would mean jail time and loss of pension if he didn’t do what he was told.
FU Betray-us.
Agreed: A terror attack in the next few days to turn the tide of public opinion. It works everytime.
Obama doesn’t NEED to strike Syria to prove that the U.S. is ready, willing, and able to annihilate legitimate threats to our national security.
1. Obama has already demonstrated that he will use military force against our enemies. Osama bin Laden is dead. Drone strikes under Obama have increased not decreased.
2. We are a world super-power. We have the most effective, best-trained, best-equipped military on the planet.
Obama’s credibility is at risk SOLELY because he did NOTHING when terrorists attacked our diplomatic facility in Benghazi and killed our ambassador and three other Americans.
The time to demonstrate his credibility was in the days following 9-11-2012. He chose to do so by addressing the U.N. to condemn an Internet video.
If an actual attack against the U.S. in Benghazi was not reason enough to respond with military force, then why should a civil war in Syria be?
One would have thought 10 years fighting in the middle east enough of an example.
This Whitehouse has so much dirt on Petraeus, that one can’t trust anything he says.
Maybe the Kos Kids had it right in calling his “Betraeyus.”
Let me guess... this time Petraeus was caught with a live boy or a dead girl.
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