Peacock Petraeus - Golden Boy No More

Yesterday began the long touted Petraeus Report. There, before the House Armed Services Committee sat the heavily decorated General and Ambassador Ryan Crocker, and there in the House chambers, history repeated itself over and over again. "Things are better in Iraq, violence is down, Iraqis are happy, but we need more money, more bases, and much more time opined the two Bush mouthpieces.

The only thing impressive about General Petraeus is his rack. His garish display of so many ribbons on the left side of his uniform calls to mind a commander from some banana republic. Gee Whiz, what did he do to earn that rainbow color sampler? Just how many asses did he kiss? My husband, whose Lt. Commander father served served thirty years, found Petraeus' showboating "obscene". It seemed to me that his peacocking was somehow supposed to assure Americans of his "expertise". It had the opposite effect. After all, Five-Star General Eisenhower never needed to wear all of his decorations at once.

Both Petraeus and Crocker have chosen to support the illegal, militaristic misadventure that is being passed off by the Bush Administration as foreign policy. They have chosen to perpetuate the the destruction of Iraq and the murder of her people and to advance the notion of an attack against Iran. The General blamed Iran for America's failure in Iraq every chance he got.

Many of our finest generals have resigned rather than commit war crimes under the criminal Commander-in-Chief George W. Bush. Their actions were honorable. General David Petraeus is not so honorably in command of an on-going occupation of a sovereign nation. He and Crocker are presiding over the colonization of Iraq and the up and coming oil grab. Bush and Cheney never intended to leave Iraq and its vast oil reserves.

So there they are again today, on the television wearing rose colored glasses, and babbling Bush talking points. It's awfully sad to see such a fine education as that garnered by David Petraeus being wasted on the grandiose delusions of global domination spouted by the naked emperor in the Oval Office. You are NOT serving your country gentlemen. You are serving America's war profiteers - the corporate military industrial security complex. The General seemed proud to tell us how the new Iraqi forces are being supplied with high tech weaponry by American war manufacturers. Just who is paying for these weapons? The impoverished Iraqis? The overtaxed American middle class? Either way it is a win win situation for "Guns To Go". Profits galore!

The Iraqi people do not want American troops in their country, they do not want Exxon oil men in their country, and they do not want Christian missionaries in their country. It is their country and and their lives. America has imposed long enough

The September Report is nothing but a smokescreen. It is still up to "We the People" to stop this war. Funding the War is Killing Our Troops so let's do what Military Families Speak Out asks to support our troops, "Fund a Safe and Orderly Withdrawal from Iraq and Care for Them as They Return".

*Note - how serious could they be about drawing down troops when plans are in motion to build yet another new American base in Iraq?

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