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Subscribe to RSSThe Senate has unanimously confirmed Gen. David Petraeus to be the new director of the CIA.
The vote was 94-0.
Petraeus, a 37-year Army veteran who has served as the top commander of U.S. and NATO forces in Afghanistan and previously as the head of U.S. Central Command, is expected to start the new job in September.
He will replace Leon Panetta, who is leaving the CIA job to become the new Defense Secretary.
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Wow....you can't articulate a response to the points Custer makes, so you attack and insult him instead??? Who is the one that sounds undereducated, paranoid and possibly delusional now???? Hmmmmm????
He has to be obama's boy he is starting his new post with a 60 day vacation.I wonder if he has use to his new airplane?HELL ITS JUST TAX PAYER MONEY
One back scratches another. Business as usual at the capitol - some, some aristocrat moving from one top job to the next, while the rest of us sit and wonder what "we're" going to do next.
Betrayus had to be removed from the inactive post he held. He was there for eight years and never came up with any change of plans. When he grew tired he would come to Washington and tell some whopper lies and return to his seat of no change. Two of Obama's bad mistakes were to leave two rethuglicans in charge of anything. Especially where they had control to supply their cronies with loads of cash from the tax payers.
Please remember that the most success Petraeus had in Iraq was due to 1) Sunni stopped supporting about 15,000 foreign fighters, which was a coincidence. 2) Petraeus hired about 125,000 sunni young men at about $400 / month on the American payroll. The shia government was supposed to hire about 20,000 from this group as army and police. Not yet. And our army spending too many borrowed dollars for very little achieved - unless you count 3 million refugees who are not returning to iraq.
We have over 55,000 severly injured, well over 5,000 kia, 1 of 6 combat veterans will have severe nightmares. We have so many combat mercenaries on our payroll that president can go to war and no one in North America even knows about it.
The honest history written 50 years from now will not be kind to very many American elected, west pointers or the UN for authorizing the Iraq war of 2003. Americans do not even care because so few have a family member or neighbor serving.
Is this the same Petreus that the left coined 'General Betrayus'?!?! Now they like him all of the sudden? Hmmmmm.
Petraeus another paranoid military creep who will use the CIA to spy on Americans who don't like the corporate-military police state America has become instead of Muslim terrorists.
The USA must have been reading the Thailand book...
While the political puppets are keeping the masses entertained. The CIA & Military are still doing their job behind the curtains...
Look at the people that are presently in key positions... They are the same names that were there during Clinton & Bush II...
At least in Thailand if a political party or Politician is caught violating the laws. They are removed from political office for LIFE...
You people sound like a bunch of kids on a playground yelling that the other side sucks. Bush did this Obama did that, always some kind of rant. The proven fact is we haven't had a qualified person for president for over a hundred years. Every president is put in place by DC insiders and special interest groups , have you forgot that a candidate can win the vote and still lose the election.
Petreus has proved he can make things happen, he knows how get people moving . He's also spent years roaming the halls in DC and the pentagon. He's lunched with the evil Cheney and the babbling Rumsfeld and still maitained his caracter. Suprised he lasted , being a decent person and all ya know.
People here enjoy saying that everyone out there wants to destroy us. It wasn't that way 50 years ago, we used to be the world leader in honor and respect. Iran was a friend of the US until the CIA put their man the Shaw in place and he was just like Saddam Insane which at one time was Cheney and Rumsfelds go to man. People hate us because for yrs we have been a visable partner in deaths in their countrys, we blindly support dictators and rouge nations, just a couple of yrs ago Cheney pushed for normal relations with lybia's Quadafy Duck just so halluburton could get in .
With bin Laden gone the CIA can direct it's efforts against Libya, China and Russia all three countries of whom are still against America regardless of the nice front that they put before everyone.
If China and Russia are such good allies then why are they still selling weapons to our enemies? Common sense would tell you that they are in support of our troops being killed just so they can make a profit off of the weapons sold to them which makes them the enemy as well.
They're selling weapons to our enemies for the same reason that we sell weapons to their enemies. Profit.
Shades of the Soviet Union! First, head of the military. Then, head of the Secret Police. and finally, head of the entire government? It must be true what they say about not learning from history.
I can't wait to see what the CIA's Rules of Engagement will be and how the teachings of the "holy" Quran will be incorporated into CIA doctrine. I hope Ann Barnhardt comes out soon witha video about this disasterous appointment.
The Koran has more of the truth than your bible. Unfortunately it says Jesus was a Messiah who sits at the right hand of Allah=Yaweh=The Creator. No one sits on the right hand of Yaweh.
Conservative= people who talk about deficit spending after they have been doing it for 8 years under bushie,4 years under bushie 1, and 8 years after their messiah reagan.
The Messiah Prophecy is about the abomination of the desolation of the Temple of Yaweh. For the least educated: that was when Pompeii a Roman general(gentile) set foot inside the Sanctuary of Yaweh. Where Yaweh lived on this earth among his people.
There were at least 4 Messiah claimants. None got the 20 legions of angels as the prophecy foretold. The Maccabees and Simon Borchobo were claimants after jc.
If you can not read or write Hebrew, Greek,Latin,Aramic, you should keep your foot out of your mouth.
That's Pompey, not Pompeii. Pompeii was a city. Talk about the 'least educated'.
If you cannot spaek English, you should keep your foot out of your mouth.
Clark u r korrect about the spelling of the word. U know what happened to Pompey. I hear he lost his head in Egypt. It was presented to Caesar(Julious). So glad that u base intelligence on spelling (twit).
Being as that one of the prerequisites of the office is being able to stand in from of your fellow citizens and tell a bold face lie; he should handle the job well. At least as good as Helms, Bush.
What is the budget for CIA? WMD in Iraq=150,000 innocent civilian Iraqi casulties and 4,000+ of our finest citizen-soldiers. Un-funded as well as Afganistan leading to a 12.7 trillion dollar deficit befor President Obama's first budget enacted. Google national debt to confirm. National debt as of 30Sept.2009. The last bushie budget as the fiscal year is how they do the budget.
Mr. P. is going to look weird as a "Spook" without his scrambled eggs on his hat and the 50 pounds of metals hanging on his uniform. We wonder if he will wear an American Flag in his lapel?
medals, not "metals."
The Senate is apparently even stupider than I could imagine. No one could be less qualified for this post.
wat suh matter clark petraeous can't spell either>HAHA
Dangerously suspicious exchange between the DoD and the CIA. Almost ominous.
Spanky attacking Feisty Red as if he had the mentality to think above the third grade level. Why doesn't he think that she has the same right as he does to express her opinion. Wonder if he is a Fox propaganda Moderator?