Originally posted by marg6043
Well, well, well, like I stated before in my previous post, Petreus is nothing more than a Career Politician in Uniform with visions of becoming a presidential candidate by 2012.

Originally posted by xpert11
I wonder how many of the Dems who are launching political attacks on Petraeus voted for the war in the first place ?

Originally posted by grover
Why do you think that voting to confirm someone means that as a result you have to approve of what he does afterwards? Thats nonsense.

Congress may be tough on Petreus... but after 6 years of a rubber stamp congress for the bush administration, we have forgotten THAT is what congress is supposed to do.... grilling administration figures and putting their feet to the fire. Its called oversight... its not pretty but if congress had been doing its job over the past 6 years of Republican rule, the bush administration would not have gotten away with as much as it has and possibly we would not be in this mess called Iraq.

There used to be a time believe it or not when parties, both Republican and Democratic not only supported their respected presidents, but stood up to them as well when need be.

Its not a Democrat/Republican thing... they are not supposed to play nice, to play pussy foot with the administration... they are supposed to keep it on its toes and keep it constitutional.

[edit on 11-9-2007 by grover]

Originally posted by grover
From what I saw and read it was the Senate Republicans like Warner and Hegel who were grilling him the hardest.

Besides that is it really their job to determine whether the man has backbone or not, or whether he can do the job?

If all things were equal except this was an appointment by a Democratic president, the Republicans would be doing the exact same thing.