10
Sep
Open Thread
At work, so I am missing the testimony.
*** Update ***
Ok. Found it streaming via CNN. I have been watching for several minutes, and have not heard a damned word from Petraeus and Crocker. All pols giving statements. Now Petraeus’s mic is broken. Skelton looks pissed.
*** Update #2 ***
When I hear things like “ethno-sectarian deaths,” my bullshit detectors go off.
*** Update #3 ***
This chart shows… That chart shows…
But don’t ask about the data to make those charts.
*** Update #4 ***
Lost my feed for a while, but it is back now, and I see the job of banging the Iran drum fell to Crocker.
*** Update #5 ***
Is it just me, or does Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen look like Sean Hannity in a red dress?
Although Hannity may be less of a hack.
My Truth Hurts
Why do we have to suffer through this kabuki? Over an hour’s worth of partisan “statements” from the legislators on the committee? Can’t we leave politics out of this?
Baby Jesus weeps for our once great nation. We have no leaders on government. God help us all.
Keith
Petraeus isn’t pulling an Emmet Fitzhume (Spies Like Us) and faking the broken mic, is he?
Pb
Magical September: wait until
Marchnext September—this time, for real!The Democratic party is the party of Charlie Brown, and Gen. Petraeus is the GOP’s designated Lucy for the current F.U.:
Ugh
Shorter Petraeus: I have reviewed my work for the last six months and I’m here to report that I’m doing fine.
Bubblegum Tate
So…are the Defeat-o-crats being put in their place? In other words, is this operation a success?
My Truth Hurts
The general just called the troops “Americans New Greatest Generation”. They just can’t let go of the dishonest WWII analogies can they? I mean no disrespect to the troops over there, just to their dishonest leaders.
This whole thing makes me sick.
whippoorwill
The Truth=[The whole truth and nothing but the truth.
The Truth=[Those things that are true which help us win.
The Truth=[Whatever the hell I say it is.
The Truth=[Not getting caught in a lie.
Take your pick.
Zifnab
This whole thing makes me sick.
Shorter: “It takes a real man to step into the middle of a sectarian civil war and play referee. I’m not that man, but I know a number of underpaid, ill-equiped, hastily drafted, boot camp graduates that are.”
J.A.F. Rusty Shackleford
Well, there you have it. Punxatawney Petraeus came to Capitol Hill and saw his shadow.
Six More Months O’ War!
Jake
Six More Months O’ War!
PoTM
Fuckin’ A, I didn’t think I’d find any thing amusing about
Gen. Pet Raeus’the White House’s report on Pony Quest.Wilfred
Blah, blah, blah PROGRESS blah, blah THIS UP/THAT DOWN (Chart Blah) more blah, blah ANBAR blah, AL QUEDA, blah, blah ANBAR (CHART Blah), blah, blah, IRAN gasp, blah.
The most remarkable thing was when he was running down the amount of money the Iraqis spent on defense and how much more they would spend. He looked right at Skelton when he said that, too: Show me the money, General. Pretty poor taste, imo.
g-rant
Fixed.
AkaDad
Shorter Gen. Playingus:
My plan is totally kickin’ ass! Trust me…
cleek
Lancet report: full of data, includes methodologies. LIBRUL HOAX MUST INVESTIGATE ! CHECK THE KERNINGGN!
Petraeus report: just a couple of charts, methodology classified. YAY ! THE SURGE IS WORKING ! LIBRUZ R TRAYTOZR!
Zifnab
Thanks John. Now my Ileana Ros-Lehtinen fantasies are totally ruined. I’m going to have to tear down the posters, throw away the blow-up doll, and everything. I hope you are happy.
ATS
John: “Is it just me, or does Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen look like Sean Hannity in a red dress?”
More like Ariel Sharon. I like how she asked, when is the US going to make neighboring Arab countries do something about the Palestinians. As if it were , say, Saudi Arabia that has impounded the Palestinian tax monies.
Nice to see, though, that AIPAC is busy doing more than spying on us. Foxman is working his ventriloquist arts on the Comgresswoman.
Synopsis of Petraeus: we need a few more Friedman units (6 month intervals) to show real progress.
Tax Analyst
That’s really not very nice, John.
Besides, Hannity’s a lot prettier.
But I don’t think he would look good in that shade of red…he needs something a little more…hmmm…serious. Otherwise nobody is going to take the crap he spews out as anything but Simple Shit…some pearls might help.
Punchy
I just want to point out that numerous times I stated that Bush would never decrease troops, until maybe Sept. 2008 just to game the elections.
I’m here to announce I was wrong…by only 2 months.
capelza
That’s a terrible picture of her. I’ve seen her a few times on Maher and she’s not that bad (unless she’s really packed on the pounds lately).
Not that I don’t think she’s full of bull…but Sean Hannity will always be a creepy man. She can lose weight and change her views, he’ll still be a psychpath.
I can barely bring myself to watch any of this. A person can only take so much lying without breaking something.
whippoorwill
Yes, they do. Oh Gawd !! Maybe Murdoch cloned them in his plot to rule the universe, or, maybe Hannity used his stem cells to make a girl version of himself, just to see what it was like.
The Other Steve
Apparnetly Ileana Ros-Lehtinen is a one-issue Republican.
The issue is when should we nuke Cuba.
The Other Steve
I’m confused. TPM is linking to a chart, apparently from Petraeus showing a schedule for drawn down of forces in Iraq.
Hasn’t he just betrayed the US to Al-Qaeda? Isn’t AQ watching that and gloating, saying “Ah ha, we just have to lay low until March of 2008! WOO HOO!”. He’s just given us a schedule for surrender to our enemies!
I feel betrayed. Can we call him Betrayus now?
demimondian
I don’t think you’re being fair to Hannity in comparing him to Ros-Lehtinen, John. He may indeed be a hack, but at least he earns his salary.
demimondian
Besides, I think Rep. Ros-Lehtinen looks like a toad.
Tom Hilton
The issue is when should we nuke Cuba.
In fairness to her, she used to have another issue: should we give the Contras Nicaragua, or should we also give them Honduras?
Perry Como
The next 6 months will be critical.
Andrew
Maybe we can ask a brown skinned cab driver what he thinks about the situation.
Jake
Hamnity? Nah, put a pink ribbon in her hair and she’d look like my mental image of Delores Umbridge. [/geek]
t. jasper parnell
The Petraeus/Crocker is the biggest waste of words ever.
And it seems that even the troops hate the troops:
demimondian
Ouch. Just…ouch.
My Truth Hurts
After listening to this bullshit all day, and watching the general give an exclusive interview to Faux News, why shouldn’t we call him “General Betray Us” John? That’s what he’s doing, that’s what this administration has done and that’s what the Democratic Congress has done and will continue to do. They have all betrayed us all.
Badtux
Sigh. Bush’s Pet gives us pretty much the same report that John Cole predicted last week . Of course he wants a F.U. to continue the manly surging. I mean, what is it about F.U. that you don’t understand?! It is unknown whether Joe Lieberman has recovered yet from his faint at the sight of the manly surge in General Pet Rayus’s pants though. The one he fainted at the sight of after he recovered from fainting at the sight of General Pet Rayus’s medals. Feel the surge, the mighty manly surge! Surge surge surge! Wow, the 101st Keyboard Kommandos must be, err, surging, in their mommies basements BIG time at the sight of Bush’s Pet, err, surging!
—Badtux the Snarky Penguin
moondancer
She looks more like Uncle Festus from Addams family.
Nancy Irving
Hannity is prettier. Much prettier, LOL.
Helena Montana
Hannity in drag after sucking a lemon