Dick Durbin Leads the Surge Against the Surge - Part I

Posted By Blackfive

"It is regrettable that the White House has apparently chosen September 11 to release the Bush-Petraeus report.  President Bush acknowledged long ago that Iraq has nothing to do with 9/11." - Senator Dick Durbin on September 7th.

Remember when I wrote?:

...Please refer all conspiracy theorists to this excellent post by Grim - "The Petraeus Report" - about the legal background around the testimony that General Petraeus will be compelled to make on September 11th.  I believe the testimony was originally supposed to take place by the 15th of September, but the Rosh Hashana holiday begins on the 12th so his testimony was moved up.  When Think Progress, Daily Kos, and all "progressives" spaz out on the date of the testimony, please remember (or remind them) which party controls Congress.  They could hold the testimony on the 10th, but then that would mean that Congress would have to work on a *gasp!* Monday...

Just sayin'...

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[MICHAEL in MI]

I have been sending that link to GRIM's post to everyone I know, Matt. It has angered me to no end to continue to see the Democrat Party and their propagandists in the mass media spread their lies and propaganda about the report (and pretty much everything about the surge and surge-offensive in general). I am glad that those of you on milblogs are working hard to fight the propaganda. I just wish you had a more mass audience.

[thebronze]

Dick Durban is a TRAITOR.

[FbL]

I don't call people names and Durbin isn't my senator, but I'm VERY close to sending him a letter calling him a digraceful, lying bastard.

A word advice: don't read that link B5 has up there if you have blood pressure/heart or stomach problems.

[Rich Casebolt]

President Bush acknowledged long ago that Iraq has nothing to do with 9/11.

If that is the case, D-Day and Iwo Jima also had nothing to do with each other ... so I guess FDR lied to tens of millions of Americans, about needing to deal with Europe first?

Read my lips, Senator ... Iraq and 911 are two different campaigns in the War on Terror. 911 woke us up to the existing threats posed by rogue regimes like the late-and-unlamented Saddam & Sons.

With this kind of gnat-strained reasoning, it is no wonder that Senators almost never get elected President.

[FbL]

And Biden is right behind him: My mind is mind is made up, please don't confuse me with the facts.

[jordan]

Durbin came back from his last Iraq trip acknowledging that improvements had been made, but he wrapped it an excoriation of the hopeless Iraqi central government.

Not one statement in print or TV today acknowledged that lower-level political improvements had been made, or that mayors and provincial leaders were largely hammering out rules of the road within communities, without violence or sectarianism. We're still not differentiating between that very real political progress at the bottom and the progress at the Maliki and parliament level. Even supporters failed to mention it, although Lindsey Graham did lightly in passing.

It's a shame, and unfair to the persistent troops who "flipped" the tribes (drinking lots of chai with the sheiks, said Lt. Col. John Nagl today on Bob Brinker's national radio show) as well as the Iraqis that took the gamble.

[Gryph]

I think whatever Petraeus says this week that it will not be trusted as accurate. You can blame this fairly on the Democrats.

But you should also fairly blame the fact that at almost every turn the Bush Administration and the Pentagon has been completely wrong in their assessments of the Iraq war, both after and prior to the original invasion of March 2003.

And by saying that they were "wrong" I'm being very generous, as both Bush and the Pentagon have often been purposely deceptive.

I don't think Bush or the Pentagon are believable on anything they say about Iraq. You can scream at me all you want, but I suspect most Americans agree with me.

Petraeus is by all accounts an honorable man. But it matters little whether he speaks the truth next week or not, as too many Americans like myself have lost all faith in the institutions that stand behind him.

[Gary]

There's no use screaming at people who are Deaf to the Truth, like yourself, griff

[MICHAEL in MI]

"Petraeus is by all accounts an honorable man. But it matters little whether he speaks the truth next week or not, as too many Americans like myself have lost all faith in the institutions that stand behind him."

Let's hope "most Americans" don't agree with you on your loss of faith, because, if they do, then America as a nation is lost. Once the majority of Americans lose faith in America, the nation will no longer exist.

I'm sorry you have lost faith, Gryph. But I do hope that in your heart, you at least HOPE others have not lost faith and that most Americans still have faith and are working to support this nation and support the mission and support the troops to success in this war effort.

If not, and your pessimism and fatalism is permeating the nation, we are in for dark days ahead.

I personally believe that it is the responsibility and the duty of all of us back here in America to inspire our fellow Americans to not lose faith and to support the war effort in any way they can. Just as I know that every day our soldiers and Marines face times where they are probably losing faith, but they push ahead, either because they know they have to or because they believe in their long-term mission and want to succeed. Just as they are not giving up, so must we not give up and not succomb to the darkness and "losing faith".

We must find the inner strength within us all to... to steal from the respected Subsunk... "Press on... to Victory".

Whenever I lose heart and lose motivation, I come to the milblogs. I see and read all that they are doing to help this mission succeed. Most of them served their time in the service and don't have to bother to write these milblogs. Hell, Greyhawk is deployed in 100+ degree heat fulfilling his duties on his deployment and he STILL finds time to write his dispatches from Iraq. THAT is INSPIRING. To know that man works seemingly endless hours, miles away from family and friends and the comforts of America, in horrid conditions, facing numerous problems and issues, let alone the unbearing heat and sand and heat and sand and... and yet, he STILL finds time to get to a computer to write back to us here in America to encourage us to keep heart.

I cannot tell you how many times his posts, as well as posts I have read here at Blackfive and read linked at the DAWN PATROL, have inspired me and encouraged me to keep up the effort to support this war effort and get out the news to my family and friends and coworkers. That kind of inspiration is contagious.

[JihadGene]

Gryph says it right!
"I don't think"
"but I suspect most Americans agree with me"

Not sure who Gryph sounds more like...your average Durbin supporter/registered Democrat or Senator DURBIN?
Hell, he even sounds like Rosie O'Donnell...wherever the heck she/he is.

[Blackfive]

Poll - vast majority of Americans trust military's judgment of Iraq.

[Gryph]

"Poll - vast majority of Americans trust military's judgment of Iraq."

The poll does not quite apply, as its framed in general terms, not specifically about General Petraeus speaking in front of Congress in a political event. I'd say "yes" to trusting military leaders in that poll also, but it does not change my opinion above.