david petraeus

IT'S MORNING IN AMERICA 8:41 am August 16, 2010

The Battle Of ‘Meet the Press’

General Petraeus is on the scene in Afghanistan — and by “Afghanistan” we mean “the Sunday morning political talk shows, in America” — to announce his intention to just stone cold win this war for you, whether you like it or not. “The president didn’t send me over here to seek a graceful exit,” Petraeus [...]

WAR ON WAR 1:17 pm June 24, 2010

Robert Gates: Our Confusion & Chaos Should Not Lead Anyone To Believe We Are Doomed

by Ken Layne

The Pentagon Men are having some kind of teleconference via MSNBC to tell America’s Enemies (TM) that, look, just because we’ve been flailing around in Afghanistan for a decade with no real mission or logic, and just because our U.S. military commander there was an insane insubordinate redneck who ran his own warlord fiefdom based [...]

BARACK OBAMA 1:27 pm June 23, 2010

HaHa David Petraeus Won’t Be Running For President In 2012 Now

by Ken Layne

Barack Obama has supposedly chosen David Petraeus as new commander of the U.S. forces in Afghanistan, even though John McCain made Petraeus faint last week at the Capitol. So no David Petraeus for President in 2012. This has been a Wonkette 2012 Update. [AP]

THIS IS OUR ZAPRUDER FILM 12:33 pm June 15, 2010

John McCain Nearly Bores David Patraeus To Death

by Ken Layne

Mummified windbag John McCain was jabbering his usual nonsense during a Senate Armed Services hearing today when star witness General David Petraeus just keeled over. Why does McCain hate the Troops?

IRAQ 11:45 am April 23, 2008