Tuesday, October 15, 2013

THIS JUST IN! HE'S A PERV!

BULLY BOY PRESS &   CEDRIC'S BIG MIX -- THE KOOL-AID TABLE

CELEBRITY IN CHIEF BARRY O HAS BEEN CAUGHT LYING TO AMERICA YET AGAIN ABOUT SPYING.

REACHED FOR COMMENT BY THESE REPORTERS THIS MORNING, BARRY O SAID, "WHAT DO YOU EXPECT?  I'M A DIRTY PERV!  I NEED TO SEE NOT JUST YOUR MOTHER AND FATHER'S BROWSER HISTORY BUT YOUR GRANDPARENTS AS WELL.  THIS IS HOW I GET OFF.  I JERK MY TINY LITTLE COCK-LETTE WHILE I SEE WHO'S BEEN WRITING WHO.  IT MAKES ME FEEL ALMOST IMPORTANT, ALMOST LIKE A MAN!"

WITH THAT THE DALIBAMA BEGAN FURIOUSLY HUMPING THE LEG OF BO -- THE WHITE HOUSE DOG AND MUTTERING "PERV! PERV! PERV!"


FROM THE TCI WIRE:



First, we addressed the coverage of al Qaeda in Iraq earlier today.   A 'sweet' 'analyst' e-mailed to advise me of how "uninformed" I am for this statement:



Starting in 2009, regular press reports pop up about how Nouri's failure to pay or create other jobs for Sahwa (Sunnis and a few Shi'ites paid to stop attacking US forces and US equipment) was leading them to join rebel groups or terrorist groups or other groups.

"Everyone," the e-mail informs me, "knows that the Sons of Iraq are Sunni."  Sahwa is also known as "Awakenings" and "Sons Of Iraq" (with the less covered female counterparts known as "Daughters Of Iraq."  As for what "everyone" knows, I know reality, what do you know?  Oh, that's right, you know crap ass nothing.

You read the conventional wisdom in the press and you think you know something.  Here?  We report on Congressional hearings and have for years.

That means that the April 2008 week of The Petraeus and Crocker Show, where the then top-US commander in Iraq, David Petraeus, and then-US Ambassador Ryan Crocker testified to Congress, we were at everyone of those hearings.  That included catching both the morning and the afternoon hearings on April 8th.  From that day's snapshot:




Today The Petraeus & Crocker Variety Hour took their act on the road.  First stop, the Senate Armed Services Committee.  Gen David Petraeus and US Ambassador Ryan Crocker are supposed to be providing a status report on the Iraq War.  They didn't.  In fact, Petraeus made clear that the status report would come . . . next September.  When the results are this bad, you stall -- which is exactly what Petraeus did. 
 The most dramatic moment came as committee chair Carl Levin was questioning Petraeus and a man in the gallery began exclaiming "Bring them home!" repeatedly.  (He did so at least 16 times before he was escored out).  The most hilarious moment was hearing Petraeus explain that it's tough in the school yard and America needs to fork over their lunch money in Iraq to avoid getting beat up.  In his opening remarks, Petraues explained of the "Awakening" Council (aka "Sons of Iraq," et al) that it was a good thing "there are now over 91,000 Sons of Iraq -- Shia as well as Sunni -- under contract to help Coalition and Iraqi Forces protect their neighborhoods and secure infrastructure and roads.  These volunteers have contributed significantly in various areas, and the savings in vehicles not lost because of reduced violence -- not to mention the priceless lives saved -- have far outweighed the cost of their monthly contracts."  Again, the US must fork over their lunch money, apparently, to avoid being beat up. 
How much lunch money is the US forking over?  Members of the "Awakening" Council are paid, by the US, a minimum of $300 a month (US dollars).  By Petraeus' figures that mean the US is paying $27,300,000 a month.  $27 million a month is going to the "Awakening" Councils who, Petraeus brags, have led to "savings in vehicles not lost".  Again, in this morning's hearings, the top commander in Iraq explained that the US strategy is forking over the lunch money to school yard bullies.  What a [proud] moment for the country.
Crocker's entire testimony can be boiled down to a statement he made in his opening statements, "What has been achieved is substantial, but it is also reversible."  Which would translate in the real world as nothing has really changed.  During questioning from Senator Jack Reed, Crocker would rush to shore up the "Awakening" Council members as well.  He would say there were about 90,000 of them and, pay attention, the transitioning of them is delayed due to "illliteracy and physical disabilities."  



What did Petraeus testify too?  "There are now over 91,000 Sons of Iraq -- Shia as well as Sunni . . ."  Maybe 'analysts' should take off their pajamas and stop depending upon other people for research?

Yes, the press has repeatedly and consistently reported of SOI/Awakenings/Sahwa being just Sunni.  But Petreaus implemented the program and reported on it to Congress so I would give that a little more credence than a wire report.

'Well people get flustered in hearings and can mispeak.'

They can.  Petraeus didn't that day or that week.  That day, his toughest moment came in the Senate Foreign Relations Committee when Senator Barbara Boxer questioned him about the monies being paid to these groups.  He got nervous but he didn't mispeak.

But in terms of the "Shia as well as Sunni"?  As I recall that moment in the hearing (I could be wrong, it was over five years ago -- but, thing is, I'm not wrong), Petraeus didn't just say it, he had a visual aid, a chart, to illustrated it.   So the chart would have had to have been wrong too.

In addition, and this is what really nails it, I remember being really ticked off when he said it.  What really pisses me off in a hearing?  Someone wasting everyone's time reading their written statement for the record out loud.  There's no reason for it.  It's put in the record.  Stop it, please.  When Secretary of State John Kerry chaired committees, he would instruct/beg witnesses not to waste everyone's time by reading those prepared remarks.

Prepared remarks.  Meaning Petraeus was reading from his written submission.  This was not an ad-lib in response to a question.  He said.  He meant to say it, he put it in writing before he said it and he brought a visual aid.

At your own website, you're drowning  in errors so I am touched that you took the time to try to find an error by me.  I'm sure they are here.  I am human being, not a computer.  But, thing is, Shi'ites being a small part of the Sahwa, Awakening, Sons Of Iraq, was not a mistake.  If you want to question it, you take the question to David Petraeus but don't tell me I have something wrong when it's based upon the testimony of the person who implemented the program.  I sat through the hearings, I covered them.  I know what was said.




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