HOW ABOUT ANOTHER LEGISLATIVE ACTION, NOW?

Quoted from the latest edition of The American Conservative.......

"David Petraeus is a political general. Yet in presenting his recent assessment of the Iraq War and in describing the “way forward,” Petraeus demonstrated that he is a political general of the worst kind—one who indulges in the politics of accommodation that is Washington’s bread and butter......."
"Critics have questioned the data that Petraeus offered to substantiate his case. They charge him with relying on dubious statistics, with ignoring facts that he finds inconvenient, and with discovering trends where none exist. They question whether to credit the much-touted progress in Anbar province to American shrewdness or to the vagaries of Iraqi sectarian and tribal politics. They cite the pathetic performance of the corrupt and dysfunctional Iraqi government. They note the disparity between the Petraeus assessment and those offered by the intelligence community, by the Government Accountability Office, and by congressionally appointed blue-ribbon commissions. They point out that other highly qualified and well-informed senior military officers—notably, Gen. George Casey, the army chief of staff, and Adm. William Fallon, commander of United States Central Command—have publicly expressed views notably at odds with those of General Petraeus.

The critics make a good case."

Now do not get me wrong, or good Lord forbid, take these excerpts as the general thesis behind the article. The article (available on line) , or on your newstand, is devoted to the thesis that if the general truly believes he has put the U.S. on the right course (or "roadmap", as they so eliquently have put it), then it makes absolutely no sense to draw back military forces, yet any reasonable person would conclude that the General should have declared the progress, and taken advantage of the situation, the willingness of the administration to comply, and the impending doomed political climate for the copnservatives, and request, nay, demand more troops to finish what he has so successfully started. Although on the subject of Iraq I have flip-flopped more than the best of the presidential hopefuls (seeing the futilityand the wrongful way we were duped into going into this mess vs. our ultinmate responsibility now to the Iraqi people), I will return the favor to this thoughful, albeit politically and diametrically opposing publication to me...

The author makes a good case.

So do I...Congress must vote to declare this article a disgrace, and as unamerican much in the same way it responded to the ad by Move On.org (another organization I do not wholeheartedly agree with either), or be shown as the weak kneed hypocrites they will have proven themselves to be. Fair is fair.