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Crocker-Petraeus Testimony Thread

by BooMan
Tue Apr 8th, 2008 at 10:22:53 AM EST

You can watch Amb. Ryan Crocker and Gen. David Petraeus testify before the Senate Armed Services committee here.

Crocker-Petraeus Testimony Thread | 10 comments (10 topical, 0 editorial, 0 hidden)

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I believe the most combative session will be this afternoon's testimony before Foreign Relations. Hagel and Voinovich should provide some fireworks.

by BooMan on Tue Apr 8th, 2008 at 10:24:41 AM EST

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ooh, forcibly removed protesters. What a lack of decorum!

by BooMan on Tue Apr 8th, 2008 at 10:44:08 AM EST

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who will ask about that "secret draft US plan for Iraq's military future" (secret no more? -passed to the Guardian, UK). When will coalition forces hand real sovereignty to the Iraqi parliament? imho, Until then Iraq will remain a quagmire at the expense of U.S. taxpayers.

The Guardian, Tuesday April 8 2008
A confidential draft agreement covering the future of US forces in Iraq, passed to the Guardian, shows that provision is being made for an open-ended military presence in the country.
The draft strategic framework agreement between the US and Iraqi governments, dated March 7 and marked "secret" and "sensitive", is intended to replace the existing UN mandate and authorises the US to "conduct military operations in Iraq and to detain individuals when necessary for imperative reasons of security" without time limit.
[.]
Iraqi critics point out that the agreement contains no limits on numbers of US forces, the weapons they are able to deploy, their legal status or powers over Iraqi citizens, going far beyond long-term US security agreements with other countries. The agreement is intended to govern the status of the US military and other members of the multinational force.

Well, "You can't vote for war and disown the results"

by idredit on Tue Apr 8th, 2008 at 10:55:54 AM EST

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Kennedy asked about it straight-off. And he wants to know why no matter how things are going in Iraq the president's arrows always point to an open-ended commitment.

by BooMan on Tue Apr 8th, 2008 at 10:59:37 AM EST
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Thanks, I was in the barn tending critters.

read last night -Tomsdispatch:Ira Chernus The General and the trap

General Entrap-Us or General Entrapped?
Democrats Should Treat Petraeus and His Surge as Irrelevant

interesting.

Well, "You can't vote for war and disown the results"

by idredit on Tue Apr 8th, 2008 at 02:00:17 PM EST
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So Iraq will become one of our colonies. I expect their people will enjoy that.

by observer393 on Tue Apr 8th, 2008 at 11:31:04 PM EST
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Lieberman is on my teevee. Make it stop.

by BooMan on Tue Apr 8th, 2008 at 11:12:31 AM EST

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I can never get c-span's media players to work. never.
I don't know why. Everyone else seems to be OK.

I follow the link and it wants me to watch the coverrage of the wisconsin primary results. In fact, it's my only option.

fuck c-span./

John Mccain Called his wife WHAT??

by brendan on Tue Apr 8th, 2008 at 11:19:55 AM EST

I have the same problem (none / 0)

It always wants me to install RealPlayer even though I'm trying to watch via Windows Media. Oh. And I already have RP installed (no matter what I do, it will not get off my computer). It worked for the first time ever late last year, but only for about 3 months. Then FF updated and since then, nothing.

~~~THIS SPACE FOR RENT~~~

by fabooj (fabooj [at} mail [dot} com) on Tue Apr 8th, 2008 at 12:48:39 PM EST
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What did Clinton ask him?

Has Obama had his chance yet?

I saw Clinton was speaking but was too busy to stop and listen....

"If you look for the social economic motive, you will not have to wait for history to tell you what was propaganda and what was truth." - George Seldes

by Real History Lisa (lpeaseRemoveThis@gte.net) on Tue Apr 8th, 2008 at 03:26:20 PM EST

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