Headline Of The Year: "Situation "Not Hopeless""

jazzjunkysue

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Sat Feb-10-07 07:42 AM
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Headline Of The Year: "Situation "Not Hopeless""

http://www.cbsnews.com/
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/02/10/iraq/main2457998.shtml

New Iraq Chief: Situation "Not Hopeless"
Gen. David Petraeus Officially Takes Control Of U.S. Forces In Iraq

(AP) The new top U.S. commander in Iraq said Saturday that the stakes are high but the situation is "not hopeless" as American and Iraqi forces move to end the sectarian violence threatening to tear apart the country.

Gen. David Petraeus made the comments at a ceremony during which he officially took control of U.S. forces in Iraq from Gen. George Casey, who is going to be the next Army chief of staff.

"The stakes are high. The way ahead will be hard but it is not hopeless," he said on a platform at a former Saddam Hussein palace at Camp Victory. "We can and we must prevail. This mission is doable."

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Let's rename this one "President not clueless."

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ixion

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Sat Feb-10-07 07:45 AM
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1. and so another Kool-Aid drinker takes the reins

oh joy. :eyes:

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indepat

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Sat Feb-10-07 07:51 AM
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2. If the mission is doable, at what cost in treasure, lives, limbs, brains, infrastructure and

Edited on Sat Feb-10-07 07:55 AM by indepat

in what time-frame if any of that should matter General? Do you also think others will forever fund our rapacious fiscal follies? :eyes:

Edited: context and add a sentence

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NewJeffCT

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Sat Feb-10-07 07:52 AM
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3. Way to inspire the troops!

"OK guys - your mission is not hopeless. It may seem that way, but I believe it is not hopeless."

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rpannier

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Sat Feb-10-07 07:53 AM
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4. Not at all surprising

What did anyone expect him to say? "This whole mission is hopeless."

At least he didn't say it would be completed in 6 days or that the insurgents are in their last throes.

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jazzjunkysue

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Sat Feb-10-07 07:57 AM
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5. "President Not Ass-Hole" n/t.

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HysteryDiagnosis

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Sat Feb-10-07 07:58 AM
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6. It will be hopeless when the people we are supporting, arming

and training turn on us and tell us to get the hell out of their country. What was old is new again.

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Mayberry Machiavelli

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Sat Feb-10-07 08:13 AM
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7. What, precisely, is the "doable mission"?

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jazzjunkysue

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Sat Feb-10-07 09:45 AM
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10. Really, that's the question of the entire B* presidency. Does anyone,

including conservatives, think that this president is actually even attempting to be president? I think it's painfully obvious to everyone on the planet with cable that he took the job just to make it easier to run his failed oil career. He never had the slightest intention of working on behalf of the general public for anything.

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bluerum

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Sat Feb-10-07 08:48 AM
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8. That is not, what I would call an inspiring speech. This guy is an

administrator, not a military leader. Whoever selected him was looking for a remote controlled rubber stamp, not a military leader.

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sarge43

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Sat Feb-10-07 09:01 AM
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9. No, not hopeless. Merely appalling. n/t

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spanone

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Sat Feb-10-07 09:58 AM
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11. What else would you expect from a handpicked war monger.

he got his fourth star, he's gonna say what they want him to say. IRRELEVENT.

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