Petraeus for Person of the Year

Posted By Uncle Jimbo

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This has been floated about a few places on the right. Now we all know that it will certainly be the Goracle, so let's have an award for someone who has actually made the world a better place. Since January of this year Gen. Petraeus has led the greatest tango whacking mission in history. This has made it possible for Iraqis to take back their lives and start working on a civil society. The incredible change in the security situation was made possible by his strategy of Counter-Insurgency, implemented by our peerless military, and finally the long-awaited Awakening that started in Anbar, thanks to many but Sheik Sattar Abu Risha and CPT Travis Patriquin can take a bow in Valhalla, Heaven, Paradise or wherever heroes go.

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So I give you the Person of the Year for those of us who prefer action against evil to bloviation against common sense.

 

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[Deltabravo]

Here, here, Uncle Jimbo! I second the motion!

[Stryyder]

Bill O'Reilly did this last night and named the General his person of the year as well.

[winemkr]

I my wildest dreams I could never consider anyone in the military as person of the year.

Not even Chesty Puller.

Real warriors don't need this bullshit, and anyone who thinks that this delicate situation isn't prone to instant reversal is living in La La land.

Why subject a good man to instant ridicule when the shit hits the fan again. And you better believe it will.

You want a person of the year?

Go for Putin, a human cancer that never fully responded to chemo.

It's time to get your head out of your blog Jimbo and get your ass back in the grass.

[Cincinnati_Bob]

I doubt the General needs it or would get much out of it, but I think it would send a great message to the frontal lobotomy patients 'with complications' called liberals.

I'll third it.

[Uncle Jimbo]

Deep breaths there WM,

It doesn't cause the General any damamge to be recognized for the good work he did in this year. I would have called for "The Troops" but that was done before, and it shold be one person. So I say Petraeus.

Cordially,

Uncle J

[winemkr]

Wrong, Petraeus will be harmed by this. It is not his job to be prematurely nominated for a distinction promulgated by a CNN/Time rag that has consistently ignored the the value of war fighters and instead pandered to people like Pelosi and Reid.

HIS JOB IS TO KILL PEOPLE IF THEY DO NOT COOPERATE. HIS JOB IS NOT OVER. IT HAS JUST BEGUN.

You are violating the chain of command by publicly putting a military Commander in a position that he has not asked for, and you are putting at risk ongoing operations by posting on the internet that you support a program which my not be common knowledge to the enemy.

I stand by my statement, and I hope you rethink yours.

[exhelodrvr]

winemkr,
"You are violating the chain of command by publicly putting a military Commander in a position that he has not asked for"

??? Not sure where your logic is coming from; how exactly does that violate the chain of command? Does it also violate the chain of command anytime they praise someone else in the military for an accomplishment?

[Ymarsakar]

The magazine is not, I repeat is not, in the military chain of command. You can't get ordered into getting public acclaim.

[Mr.Sparkle]

winemkr is the nuttiest person I ever did see.

He would not be well pleased with your description of his job either...

[LT Nixon]

General Petraeus, right on. I think a close runner-up would be Ambassador Crocker or Lieutenant General Odierno. A good example of putting abstract ideas into practical action that can turn an entire country around. I didn't see Al Gore change anything with his movie except to re-affirm a bunch of Gulfstream liberals of their intellectual superiority. Thanks BlackFive, I hope it happens!

[defendusa]

OMFG!!! we should be very scared when Time names Putin as MOTY.
Petraeus gets my vote hands down.

[LT Nixon]

DefendUsa,

Not a good day. Putin won it! Oh well, at least it wasn't Ahmadinejad or something.

[vet66]

Petraeus should have won it hands down. This is yet another failure of MSM to recognize and appreciate assymetrical warfare whether it be in the marketplace of ideas or fighting an implacable enemy bent on our destruction.

By the way, there is very little difference between the jihadis and Putin. The jihadis tell you up front what their goal is, Putin is more devious but just as determined.