http://bravenewfilms.org/topics/general-petraeus 2008-09-16T12:47:51Z http://bravenewfilms.org/blog/52601-john-mccain-mccain-palin-rally-09-09-08 2008-09-16T12:47:51Z IssueAlliance <object width="375" height="308"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/7sL2ubaGaS0&border=0&rel=0"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/7sL2ubaGaS0&border=0&rel=0" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="375" height="308"></embed></object> <a href="/blog/52601-john-mccain-mccain-palin-rally-09-09-08"><img src="http://bravenewfilms.org/pictures/medium/63815" width="140" height="105" border="0" align="left" style="border: solid 1px black;" /></a> <div class="post_content"> <p>John McCain <br />McCain/Palin Rally <br />Lancaster, PA 09/09/08</p> <p>TRANSCRIPT: <br />JOHN MCCAIN: My friends, tomorrow, tomorrow will mark a year since General Petraeus first came back and testified before Congress about the surge. We were one vote away in the Senate from Congress and the Senate from cutting off funding -- which Senator Obama voted to cut off funding for our troops in Iraq. </p> <p>JM PA 09-09 (LF#10) AFGK - ClipC</p> <p>To download a high res version of this clip, VISIT: COMING SOON</p> </div> <a href="/blog/52601-john-mccain-mccain-palin-rally-09-09-08">Watch the video</a> http://bravenewfilms.org/blog/51288-headzup-petraeus-disagrees-with-mccain 2008-10-07T14:51:59Z headzup <object width="375" height="308"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/k6uOqAZV9OI&border=0&rel=0"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/k6uOqAZV9OI&border=0&rel=0" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="375" height="308"></embed></object> <a href="/blog/51288-headzup-petraeus-disagrees-with-mccain"><img src="http://bravenewfilms.org/pictures/medium/62285" width="140" height="105" border="0" align="left" style="border: solid 1px black;" /></a> <div class="post_content"> <p><a href="http://www.headzup.tv">www.headzup.tv</a> John McCain is told that, in a recent Newsweek interview, General David Petraeus conceded the Iraq Sunni Awakening could have happened without the surge. Read the Newsweek article here: <a href="http://www.newsweek.com/id/154597/page/1">www.newsweek.com</a> </p> <p>Download daily Catch and Release Comedy™ political cartoons to your mobile phone or iPod at <a href="http://www.headzup.tv">www.headzup.tv</a> </p> </div> <a href="/blog/51288-headzup-petraeus-disagrees-with-mccain">Watch the video</a> http://bravenewfilms.org/blog/46516-obama-in-jordan-details-petraeus-talk-withdrawal-strategy 2008-08-08T14:46:07Z tpmtv <object width="375" height="308"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/qQ8-93_XLtM&border=0&rel=0"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/qQ8-93_XLtM&border=0&rel=0" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="375" height="308"></embed></object> <a href="/blog/46516-obama-in-jordan-details-petraeus-talk-withdrawal-strategy"><img src="http://bravenewfilms.org/pictures/medium/54879" width="140" height="105" border="0" align="left" style="border: solid 1px black;" /></a> <div class="post_content"> <p>Barack Obama, July 22, 2008</p> </div> <a href="/blog/46516-obama-in-jordan-details-petraeus-talk-withdrawal-strategy">Watch the video</a> http://bravenewfilms.org/blog/44514-john-mccain-town-hall-meeting-12-07-07 2008-07-02T18:54:08Z IssueAlliance <object width="375" height="308"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/KCko6f9_VXs&border=0&rel=0"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/KCko6f9_VXs&border=0&rel=0" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="375" height="308"></embed></object> <a href="/blog/44514-john-mccain-town-hall-meeting-12-07-07"><img src="http://bravenewfilms.org/pictures/medium/50902" width="140" height="105" border="0" align="left" style="border: solid 1px black;" /></a> <div class="post_content"> <p>John McCain <br />Town Hall <br />Atkinson, NH 12/07/07</p> <p>MCCAIN: "We do have, unfortunately, is the 527s, the MoveOn.orgs. Those are not a violation of our law. Perhaps they - we should have been more specific on that, but the '74 law, the 1974 law applies to these people and, if I could just quote it very quickly, it says organizations that - that engage in partisan political purposes to influence the outcome of elections are subject to campaign contribution limits.</p> <p>"So the Federal Elections Commission, the commission that's set up to enforce this, basically has not enforced this and, if they did it was on a case-by-case basis rather than prohibiting all of it. This is how you get MoveOn.org and George Soros spending hundreds, I'm told, hundreds of millions of dollars to affect the outcome of political campaigns. It's got to be stopped. It's got to be stopped.</p> <p>"And, by the way, again, I don't mean to - to continue on this, but I'm sure you all know about the full-page ad that MoveOn.org took out in the New York Times with a picture of General Petraeus and said, 'General Petraeus or General Betray Us. You know, there's, there's no place in America for that, for that kind of thing. And so I want it stopped, I will try to get the 527s stopped."</p> <p>LABEL: JM NH 12-7 (BH#22) AHCSE - ClipB</p> <p>To download a high res version of this clip, VISIT: https://issuealliance.box.net/shared/xh6iz99ssk</p> <p>To download the full campaign event, VISIT: https://issuealliance.box.net/shared/aciy8bbac4</p> </div> <a href="/blog/44514-john-mccain-town-hall-meeting-12-07-07">Watch the video</a> http://bravenewfilms.org/blog/43622-john-mccain-town-hall-6-13-08 2008-06-30T22:52:45Z IssueAlliance <object width="375" height="308"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/B-bOuSb9VYA&border=0&rel=0"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/B-bOuSb9VYA&border=0&rel=0" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="375" height="308"></embed></object> <a href="/blog/43622-john-mccain-town-hall-6-13-08"><img src="http://bravenewfilms.org/pictures/medium/49960" width="140" height="105" border="0" align="left" style="border: solid 1px black;" /></a> <div class="post_content"> <p>John McCain <br />Town Hall <br />Pemberton, NJ 06/13/08</p> <p>TRANSCRIPT: <br />JOHN MCCAIN:"Most of Baghdad, Basra now are under government and Iraqi military control. Not under, uh, uh—Iraqi military control. Not American control but support of American military. The Maliki government is functioning effectively. Do they have a long way to go? Yes. Is it long and hard and tough? Yes. But I want to guarantee you there is a dramatic difference between me and Sen. Obama. Sen. Obama said that he wanted to withdraw a long time ago. That would have been chaos, genocide, a wider war and we would have been back. He said the surge couldn't work, and wouldn't work. And to this day, to this very day, Sen. Obama refuses to acknowledge that we are winning in Iraq. He refuses. He called it spin. Is Gen Petraeus spinning the American people?"</p> <p>AUDIENCE: "No!"</p> <p>MCCAIN: "I don't think so. I don't think so. So I think the point is here, that we have a stark choice between doing what Sen. Obama wants to do which is a wider war, greater chaos in the region and encouragement of the Iranians to continue their activities which, as we know, are a great threat to peace and stability in the world. They are exporting, still, into Iraq, the most lethal explosive devices which are killing young Americans and that w—is the consequence of the course that Sen. Obama wanted to pursue. And, my friends, we are succeeding, we are winning. The benefits of the peace, the benefits of the peace means that our American troops come home. But they don't come home in defeat. They come home with honor, with victory . . ."</p> <p>LABEL: JM NJ 6-13 (GR#89) XYKFCS - Clip E</p> <p>To download a high res version of this clip, VISIT: https://issuealliance.box.net/shared/7kyndmuosw <br />To download the full campaign event, VISIT: https://issuealliance.box.net/shared/ftep4vhk4o</p> </div> <a href="/blog/43622-john-mccain-town-hall-6-13-08">Watch the video</a> http://bravenewfilms.org/blog/36060-codepink-woman-arrested-petreaus-report-hearing 2008-06-15T21:29:37Z codepinkDC <object width="375" height="308"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/Y_QxGdfne3M&border=0&rel=0"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/Y_QxGdfne3M&border=0&rel=0" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="375" height="308"></embed></object> <a href="/blog/36060-codepink-woman-arrested-petreaus-report-hearing"><img src="http://bravenewfilms.org/pictures/medium/40398" width="140" height="105" border="0" align="left" style="border: solid 1px black;" /></a> <div class="post_content"> <p>Desiree Fairooz of Arlington Texas was arrested after being escorted from Monday's joint hearing in the House of Representatives for calling Genreal Petraeus a "WAR CRIMINAL"</p> </div> <a href="/blog/36060-codepink-woman-arrested-petreaus-report-hearing">Watch the video</a> http://bravenewfilms.org/blog/36047--citizen-arrest-of-general-petraeus-national-press-club 2008-06-15T21:29:27Z codepinkDC <object width="375" height="308"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/R2_Sf4zYpkc&border=0&rel=0"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/R2_Sf4zYpkc&border=0&rel=0" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="375" height="308"></embed></object> <a href="/blog/36047--citizen-arrest-of-general-petraeus-national-press-club"><img src="http://bravenewfilms.org/pictures/medium/40384" width="140" height="105" border="0" align="left" style="border: solid 1px black;" /></a> <div class="post_content"> <p>"Citizen Arrest" of General Petraeus @ National Press Club</p> </div> <a href="/blog/36047--citizen-arrest-of-general-petraeus-national-press-club">Watch the video</a> http://bravenewfilms.org/blog/35997-interviews-with-people-waiting-in-line-for-petraeus-hearing 2008-10-07T14:23:49Z codepinkDC <object width="375" height="308"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/hHypcKuYPjE&border=0&rel=0"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/hHypcKuYPjE&border=0&rel=0" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="375" height="308"></embed></object> <a href="/blog/35997-interviews-with-people-waiting-in-line-for-petraeus-hearing"><img src="http://bravenewfilms.org/pictures/medium/40332" width="140" height="105" border="0" align="left" style="border: solid 1px black;" /></a> <div class="post_content"> <p>This video features the thoughts and feelings of some of those waiting in line to get into the hearing room where General Petraeus was to testify before the Senate Armed Services Committee on the morning of April 8th, 2008. Includes CODEPINK and Iraq Veterans Against the War.</p> </div> <a href="/blog/35997-interviews-with-people-waiting-in-line-for-petraeus-hearing">Watch the video</a> http://bravenewfilms.org/blog/35996-codepink-holds-up-signs-during-petraeus-testimony-in-senate 2008-10-07T14:23:49Z codepinkDC <object width="375" height="308"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/Dxn8KDkv3Hk&border=0&rel=0"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/Dxn8KDkv3Hk&border=0&rel=0" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="375" height="308"></embed></object> <a href="/blog/35996-codepink-holds-up-signs-during-petraeus-testimony-in-senate"><img src="http://bravenewfilms.org/pictures/medium/40331" width="140" height="105" border="0" align="left" style="border: solid 1px black;" /></a> <div class="post_content"> <p>This video was filmed on April 8th, 2008 during the Senate Foreign Relations hearing in which General Petraeus and Ambassador Crocker were testifying.</p> </div> <a href="/blog/35996-codepink-holds-up-signs-during-petraeus-testimony-in-senate">Watch the video</a> http://bravenewfilms.org/blog/35995-hymn-for-suffering-mothers-in-line-at-petraeus-hearing 2008-10-07T14:23:49Z codepinkDC <object width="375" height="308"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/P2UItV-1j28&border=0&rel=0"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/P2UItV-1j28&border=0&rel=0" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="375" height="308"></embed></object> <a href="/blog/35995-hymn-for-suffering-mothers-in-line-at-petraeus-hearing"><img src="http://bravenewfilms.org/pictures/medium/40330" width="140" height="105" border="0" align="left" style="border: solid 1px black;" /></a> <div class="post_content"> <p>April 8th, 2008. The line was huge at the Senate Foreign Relations hearing in which General Petraeus and Ambassador Crocker were to testify. Several CPDEPINK women were dressed as mourning mothers. As they waited to enter the hearing, they sang a Hymn for Suffering Mothers by Betsy Rose.</p> </div> <a href="/blog/35995-hymn-for-suffering-mothers-in-line-at-petraeus-hearing">Watch the video</a> http://bravenewfilms.org/blog/35994-codepink-removed-from-petraeus-hearing 2008-10-07T14:23:49Z codepinkDC <object width="375" height="308"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/ncxon-zoGBw&border=0&rel=0"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/ncxon-zoGBw&border=0&rel=0" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="375" height="308"></embed></object> <a href="/blog/35994-codepink-removed-from-petraeus-hearing"><img src="http://bravenewfilms.org/pictures/medium/40329" width="140" height="105" border="0" align="left" style="border: solid 1px black;" /></a> <div class="post_content"> <p>This video shows how CODEPINK was allowed to hold signs protesting the Iraq war inside the Senate Foreign Relations hearing where General Petraeus was testifying. Eventually, they were arbitrarily removed by Capitol Police.</p> </div> <a href="/blog/35994-codepink-removed-from-petraeus-hearing">Watch the video</a> http://bravenewfilms.org/blog/35022-petraeus-wants-pause-on-troop-cuts 2008-06-18T09:30:19Z Reuters <object width="375" height="308"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/2DO2Cm4s8pU&border=0&rel=0"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/2DO2Cm4s8pU&border=0&rel=0" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="375" height="308"></embed></object> <a href="/blog/35022-petraeus-wants-pause-on-troop-cuts"><img src="http://bravenewfilms.org/pictures/medium/38498" width="140" height="105" border="0" align="left" style="border: solid 1px black;" /></a> <div class="post_content"> <p>Apr 8 - The proposed pause comes amid renewed violence in Iraq, including 11 Americans death in the 48 hours leading up to the status testimony.The surge was designed to give Iraqi leaders the breathing room to pass key laws to provide stability. Critics say those political gains have been few and far between. Deborah Lutterbeck reports.</p> </div> <a href="/blog/35022-petraeus-wants-pause-on-troop-cuts">Watch the video</a> http://bravenewfilms.org/blog/22216-romney-and-mccain-s-man-of-the-year-general-petraeus 2008-01-12T20:44:30Z GottaLaff <div class="post_content"> <p><p>What, <a href="http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/">Putin&#39;s</a> not good enough?</p><blockquote><p>Count Republican <strong><a href="http://www.cnn.com/ELECTION/2008/candidates/mitt.romney.html"><strong>Mitt Romney</strong></a> among those who aren&#39;t happy with <a href="http://www.time.com/time/specials/2007/personoftheyear/article/0,28804,1690753_1690757_1690766-2,00.html"><strong>Time Magazine&#39;s</strong></a> choice of Russian President Vladimir Putin</strong> for Person of the Year. </p><p>In an <strong>interview with CNN&#39;s Glen Beck, the presidential candidate called the choice &quot;disgusting.&quot;</strong></p></blockquote><p>Oookay, first of all, Willard was on Glen Beck. That automatically eliminates all credibility from anything he says. What&#39;s that? He doesn&#39;t have any to start with? Then let&#39;s just put him in the minus column and leave it at that. </p><p>Next, check out the second of these next paragraphs. It sounds like he&#39;s calling his own choice for Man of the Year disgusting:</p><blockquote><p>&quot;You know, he imprisoned his political opponents. There have been a number of highly suspicious murders,&quot; Romney said on Beck&#39;s radio show. &quot;He has squelched public dissent and free press. And to suggest that <strong>someone like that is the Man of the Year is really disgusting.</strong> I&#39;m just appalled.&quot;</p><p>&quot;<strong>Clearly General Petraeus is the person, or one of a few people, who would certainly merit that designation,</strong>&quot; the former Massachusetts governor added.</p></blockquote> <p>See? It sounds like he&#39;s suggesting that GenPet (Which is kinda like JLo, only not rich. Or sexy. Or pregnant.) is one of the few who would merit the &quot;disgusting&quot; designation. You didn&#39;t see? Oh well.</p><p>Let&#39;s look at what JMc (okay, that doesn&#39;t work at all) has to say: </p><blockquote><p>Rival presidential candidate <strong><a href="http://www.cnn.com/ELECTION/2008/candidates/rudy.giuliani.html"><strong>John McCain</strong></a></strong> <strong>also said Wednesday he disagreed with the choice</strong>.</p><p>&ldquo;I noticed that Time Magazine made President Putin the Time Magazine &lsquo;Man of the Year,&rsquo;&rdquo; McCain said, according to NBC. &ldquo;I understand that probably, but <strong>my man of the year is one Gen. David Petraeus</strong>, our general who has brought success in Iraq.&rdquo;</p></blockquote><p>So he&#39;s The One. <a href="https://pol.moveon.org/petraeus.html">General David &quot;tangible progress&quot;&nbsp; Petraeus</a>. Um, Man-o&#39;-the-Year GenPet? Let MRom and JMc in on how that occupation&#39;s working out for you and those <a href="http://icasualties.org/oif/">3895</a> troops, will you? Buh-bye now.<br /> </p></p> </div> http://bravenewfilms.org/blog/17261-a-bizarre-unsolicited-email-from-gen-petraeus-spokesman 2008-01-12T20:31:14Z GottaLaff <div class="post_content"> <p><p>H/t to Commenter Mainsailset.</p><p><a href="http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/">Just go read.</a>&nbsp;</p></p> </div> http://bravenewfilms.org/blog/13096-fox-s-balanced-analysis-of-the-petraeus-hearings 2008-03-22T21:54:33Z cliffschecter <div class="post_content"> <p></p> </div> http://bravenewfilms.org/blog/12833-smack-rudy-s-booty-for-using-a-general-on-duty 2008-01-12T20:20:30Z GottaLaff <a href="http://bravenewfilms.org/blog/12833-smack-rudy-s-booty-for-using-a-general-on-duty"><img src="http://bravenewfilms.org/pictures/thumbnail_pic/12909" style="border: solid 1px black; margin-right: 7px; margin-top: 3px;" align="left" /></a> <div class="post_content"> <p><p>Pentagon regulations <a href="http://www.fvap.gov/vao/2006policy.html">do not allow</a> for military personnel <a href="http://tpmelectioncentral.com/2007/09/pentagon_raps_use_of_petraeus_in_political_ads.php">appearing in political ads in uniform</a>:</p><blockquote><p>[T]he Pentagon says that the General &quot;has not condoned&quot; the use of his image in Rudy&#39;s ad or any other political ads, adding that it was done &quot;without his consent.&quot; </p></blockquote><p>But Rudy&#39;s such a fine, upstanding, by-the-book kind of America&#39;s Mayor. It would be so tacky of him to abuse Petraeus&#39;s image like that. Especially when it&#39;s against regulations!<br /> </p><blockquote><p>Rudy&#39;s Web ad -- launched yesterday -- features images of a uniformed Petraeus as a narrator&#39;s voice in the background accuses Clinton of slandering the General. In the ad, the Giulilani campaign also faults Clinton for not forcefully condemning a MoveOn <a href="http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/images/2007-09-14_rudy_petraeus_ad.gif"> ad</a> in <em>The Times</em> that also features a picture of Petraeus.</p></blockquote><p>Shameful. Using an image of someone without their consent...for political reasons? Who&#39;d ever do a thing like <strong><a href="http://cliffschecter.bravenewfilms.org/blog/12801-provide-the-caption-for-our-pal-rudy-g">that</a></strong>? Certainly nobody here at the Very Liberal Hedonistic Blog!</p></p> </div> http://bravenewfilms.org/blog/12832-sen-joe-biden-asks-president-bush-the-relevant-question-about-iraq 2008-06-16T21:30:15Z cliffschecter <object width="375" height="308"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/H0gCkT6-Wt8&border=0&rel=0"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/H0gCkT6-Wt8&border=0&rel=0" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="375" height="308"></embed></object> <a href="/blog/12832-sen-joe-biden-asks-president-bush-the-relevant-question-about-iraq"><img src="http://bravenewfilms.org/pictures/medium/12908" width="140" height="105" border="0" align="left" style="border: solid 1px black;" /></a> <div class="post_content"> <p><blockquote><p>&quot;Is pressing ahead with the war in Iraq going to make America safer?&quot;</p></blockquote><p>He then does quite a convincing job of answering that question. Surprisingly, the answer is: <strong>NO</strong></p></p> </div> <a href="/blog/12832-sen-joe-biden-asks-president-bush-the-relevant-question-about-iraq">Watch the video</a> http://bravenewfilms.org/blog/12712-fox-s-gibson-attacks-moveon-org-again-again 2008-08-08T15:27:40Z HotPotatoMash <object width="375" height="308"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/rgf0EECUtH0&border=0&rel=0"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/rgf0EECUtH0&border=0&rel=0" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="375" height="308"></embed></object> <a href="/blog/12712-fox-s-gibson-attacks-moveon-org-again-again"><img src="http://bravenewfilms.org/pictures/medium/12809" width="140" height="105" border="0" align="left" style="border: solid 1px black;" /></a> <div class="post_content"> <p>With Tony Snow and Laura Ingraham</p> </div> <a href="/blog/12712-fox-s-gibson-attacks-moveon-org-again-again">Watch the video</a> http://bravenewfilms.org/blog/12619-testimony-on-iraq-concludes-12-september-07 2008-06-16T21:31:01Z aljazeera <object width="375" height="308"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/zynYUsaUQ10&border=0&rel=0"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/zynYUsaUQ10&border=0&rel=0" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="375" height="308"></embed></object> <a href="/blog/12619-testimony-on-iraq-concludes-12-september-07"><img src="http://bravenewfilms.org/pictures/medium/12719" width="140" height="105" border="0" align="left" style="border: solid 1px black;" /></a> <div class="post_content"> <p>General David Petraeus and Ryan Crocker meet the media to answer questions over the US military strategy in Iraq.</p> </div> <a href="/blog/12619-testimony-on-iraq-concludes-12-september-07">Watch the video</a> http://bravenewfilms.org/blog/12543-october-surprise-the-next-war-crime 2008-10-07T14:40:20Z BlueBlogsTV <object width="375" height="308"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/mdAWDsr_6fI&border=0&rel=0"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/mdAWDsr_6fI&border=0&rel=0" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="375" height="308"></embed></object> <a href="/blog/12543-october-surprise-the-next-war-crime"><img src="http://bravenewfilms.org/pictures/medium/12645" width="140" height="105" border="0" align="left" style="border: solid 1px black;" /></a> <div class="post_content"> <p>Batten down the hatches, folks. George W. Bush is about to complete the final step in his imperial dreams of world war.</p> </div> <a href="/blog/12543-october-surprise-the-next-war-crime">Watch the video</a> http://bravenewfilms.org/blog/12452-petraeus-and-bush-do-they-share-a-speechwriter-or-a-brain 2008-06-16T21:31:28Z cliffschecter <object width="375" height="308"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/OAxV4Wbi5Lk&border=0&rel=0"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/OAxV4Wbi5Lk&border=0&rel=0" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="375" height="308"></embed></object> <a href="/blog/12452-petraeus-and-bush-do-they-share-a-speechwriter-or-a-brain"><img src="http://bravenewfilms.org/pictures/medium/12560" width="140" height="105" border="0" align="left" style="border: solid 1px black;" /></a> <div class="post_content"> <p><p>Watch this video from&nbsp;<em>The Daily Show</em>&nbsp;last night. It&#39;s amazing! Somehow General Petraeus and President Bush came up with the exaxt same words to describe a whole variety of topics re Iraq.</p><p>It&#39;s almost like they planned it or something. But Petraeus is too independent to do that, so I am searching for some other explanation.</p><p>Any suggestions would be helpful.</p></p> </div> <a href="/blog/12452-petraeus-and-bush-do-they-share-a-speechwriter-or-a-brain">Watch the video</a> http://bravenewfilms.org/blog/12397-mini-liveblogging-of-iraq-hearings 2008-01-12T20:19:29Z GottaLaff <div class="post_content"> <p><p>Apologies for the sketchiness of this, but here are a few random quotes/paraphrases:&nbsp;</p><p>There are limits as to what Iran can do... Iran&#39;s influence has its limits...Syria is problematic. -- Ryan Crocker.</p><p>Competition for power and resources in Iraq is the biggest problem.--&nbsp; General Petraeus.</p><p><em>At the core is our troops trying to referee this competition?!</em>...And the number of troops is the same as February, so the policy we had in February is the same as July-- Bob Menendez </p><p>Petraeus:&nbsp; The mission has been modified (referring to the transitioning to Iraqis).</p><p>Menendez:&nbsp; The Iraqis fully independent? They&#39;re less independent than they were in November &#39;06! 11 months later, we depend on iraqis to do more, but we&#39;re at the same levels as&#39; 06.</p><p>Petraeus: ...don&#39;t get too fixated on the numbers. </p><p>Menendez: It&#39;s your chart.&nbsp; If Bush said, how many more years do American troops have to continue in Iraq, what would you say to him?</p><p>Petraeus:&nbsp; I can&#39;t predict that.</p><p>Menendez: If he pressed you?</p><p>Petraeus:&nbsp; I can&#39;t lay out a timeline. I&#39;m as frustrated with the situation as everyone else.</p><p>Menendez:&nbsp; Families are asking how long this will continue.&nbsp; We&#39;re saying, &quot;Let&#39;s forget the benchmarks.&quot;&nbsp; ... My time has expired.&nbsp;</p><p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; **************************<br /> </p><p>Vitter&#39;s up. Oy, he just brought up 9/11. In contrast, Barack Obama had made a big point of NOT connecting 9/11 with Iraq.&nbsp;</p><p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; *************************&nbsp;</p><p>Barbara Boxer, Chuck Hagel, and Russ Feingold were the most aggressive questioners that I&#39;ve seen so far. I wish I could quote them, but while they were blasting away, I was (ready?) blowdrying. </p><p>Off to work. See you tonight. </p></p> </div> http://bravenewfilms.org/blog/12391-what-crocker-and-petraeus-didn-t-say 2008-01-12T20:19:29Z Paddy <a href="http://bravenewfilms.org/blog/12391-what-crocker-and-petraeus-didn-t-say"><img src="http://bravenewfilms.org/pictures/thumbnail_pic/12518" style="border: solid 1px black; margin-right: 7px; margin-top: 3px;" align="left" /></a> <div class="post_content"> <p><p><a href="http://www.mcclatchydc.com/homepage/story/19610.html">Via McClatchy-</a></p><ul><li>Neither Petraeus nor U.S. Ambassador Ryan Crocker talked about the fact that since the troop surge began the pace by which Iraqis were abandoning their homes in search of safety had increased. They didn&#39;t mention that 86 percent of Iraqis who&#39;ve fled their homes said they&#39;d been targeted because of their sect, according to the International Organization for Migration.</li><li>While Petraeus stressed that civilian casualties were down over the last five weeks, he drew no connection between that statement and a chart he displayed that showed that the number of attacks rose during at least one of those weeks.</li><li>Petraeus also didn&#39;t highlight the fact that his charts showed that &quot;ethno-sectarian&quot; deaths in August, down from July, were still higher than in June, and he didn&#39;t explain why the greatest drop in such deaths, which peaked in December, occurred between January and February, before the surge began.</li></ul><p>I heard Senator Hagel was particularly on the mark this morning, and hopefully the rest of this mornings and this afternoons sessions will give us some real information, not this bait and switch crap.</p><p>&nbsp;</p></p> </div> http://bravenewfilms.org/blog/12382-general-petraeus-is-a-politician-pure-and-simple 2008-06-17T03:29:37Z cliffschecter <object width="375" height="308"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/9lz-PxpPGXo&border=0&rel=0"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/9lz-PxpPGXo&border=0&rel=0" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="375" height="308"></embed></object> <a href="/blog/12382-general-petraeus-is-a-politician-pure-and-simple"><img src="http://bravenewfilms.org/pictures/medium/12513" width="140" height="105" border="0" align="left" style="border: solid 1px black;" /></a> <div class="post_content"> <p><p>He has been lying for this administration for years.&nbsp;</p><p>It is amazing to me that Democrats still don&#39;t know how to play this game (sadly, for soldiers in Iraq, it is no game). Everything the Bush Administation touches turns to bullshit. We know that.</p><p>They turned once-respected bipartisan demi-God Colin Powell into a liar on Iraq. Hell, look what happened to Rep. Brian Baird (D-Dumbstruck), who voted against the war initially and was recently brainwashed by them after one trip over there. </p><p>This has been Karl Rove&#39;s stock &amp; trade his entire career, buying off those he needs who are either impartial or start out on the other side (try googling Bob Bullock, Rick Perry, Zell Miller, Joe Lieberman, Mark McKinnon, Matthew Dowd, etc and so forth).</p><p>Glenn Greenwald provides the specific case against Gen. Petraeus in this video.</p></p> </div> <a href="/blog/12382-general-petraeus-is-a-politician-pure-and-simple">Watch the video</a> http://bravenewfilms.org/blog/12312-what-chairman-lantos-said 2008-01-12T20:19:19Z cliffschecter <div class="post_content"> <p><p>Rep. Tom Lantos&#39; opening statement to General Petraeus and Ambassador Crocker:</p><blockquote><p><strong>Chairman Lantos: </strong>&quot;We can not take ANY of this Administration&#39;s assertions on Iraq at face value anymore, and no amount of charts or statistics will improve its credibility. This is not a knock on you, General Petraeus, or on you, Ambassador Crocker. But the fact remains, gentlemen, that the Administration has sent you here today to convince the members of these two Committees and the Congress that victory is at hand. With all due respect to you, I must say ... I don&#39;t buy it. </p><p>And neither does the independent Government Accountability Office or the Commission headed by General Jones. Both recently issued deeply pessimistic reports... In the last few days, General Petraeus, media have reported that you are prepared to support a slow drawdown of our forces in Iraq - beginning with a brigade or two, perhaps at the end of this year. This clearly is nowhere near enough... It is time to go - and to go now.&quot;</p></blockquote><p>Well said Congressman, well said.</p></p> </div>