Posted by
Tzimisce on Tuesday, September 11, 2007 11:33:21 AM
I can't believe what I saw yesterday from our 'leaders' in Congress.
Four star General David Petraeus was brought in ostensibly to answer questions and file a report to Congress about the progress being made in Iraq. I say 'ostensibly' because forty five minutes in, the General still hadn't said anything. This isn't because of anything Petraeus was doing, it was because various Congress people (overwhelmingly from the Democrat side of the aisle) wouldn't let the man speak.
It's really funny. Up to this point, Congress has been trying to convince us that they are really stupid and gullible: they brag about how they were tricked in to going to war by Bush. (Thus try to convince us all that they're stupid or incompetant or both.) But after yesterday, I don't see how anyone from the Bush administration would have gotten a word in edgewise to lie to them.
Wasn't it Congress that wrote the law that required the President to make a report about the progress going on in Iraq? And now Congress fears the report is "partisan" since it's coming from the Executive branch.
Of course their interpretation of any such report wouldn't be partisan or political - even if they're using it in their various re-election bids.
Bare in mind that most of the complaints about the report being tainted come from the left side of the hall: a bunch of people who in recent years are taking more and more of their advice from left wing "netroots". Groups that boast about how non political and middle of the road they are even as they advance a far left wing agenda. Places like MoveOn.org, DailyKos, Code Pink, ACORN and others.
Yep, General Petraeus is biased because he's career military and he'll just say how well everything is going. Yep, can't trust people who have worked in the oil industry all their life either cause they'll just say anything to preserve their profit margin. These people are just not good sources of information.
But you can trust people like the left wing activist Michael Moore - he'd never lie or distort information to win an election. And you can trust a lifelong politian like Al Gore on Environmental issues even though he built his career on such ideas.
Isn't it possible that there really is something good being done in Iraq? And why aren't left wingers accused of being closed minded when they're slamming a report that hasn't even been released? They brag about how "open minded" they are. And being "open minded" means they're at least willing to listen. They keep bragging about how they "look at the grey", so why is it that in the War on Terror they only see the black actions of the United States? And why are they too pathetic and stupid to see the intellectual bankruptcy of their own boasts?
They should really (at least) try to listen to other people, they just might learn something.