Petraeus Take 2: Is America Safer Because of Iraq War?

General David Petraeus Testimony
Senate Armed Services Committee
April 8, 2008

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[RoachAsylum]

uh...this is a general not a policy maker. His job is not to question or analyze policy. jeez

[Wendy62]

Warner's question is a good one, but he's asking the wrong person. Petraeus doesn't decide if we're going to fight, he just leads the fighting.

[lafleurplumeria]

The big picture looks insane! They tell us that 4000 deaths are worth the war. Then,one person dies of N1H1 and they want a law that says we have to get flu shots. This seems so obviously unbalanced that it makes me think we are all high on LSD or something and can't see the obvious. Is this why everyone is saying: WAKE UP! Is there something in our water that's making us all stupid? Ron Paul says flu vaccine kills more people than the flu. He says there is mercury in each dose. JUST SAY NO!!!

[Randroide]

@beebeemoocow1 According to your "logic" you should be invading and occuping also Somalia, North Korea, Iran, Venezuela and maybe even Saudi Arabia and China.

[beebeemoocow1]

If we didnt move into Iraq, then we would have been attacked again.. death could not have been avoided..

[HottyAsakura]

rolf u guys are all wrong. look at this way now there are not right answer. HE said yes bacause now Al Q change focus on us to IRAQ. And No because Al Q still suicide bomb our troops everyday

[SpartanMan80]

Senator Warner's question can be answered with one word: YES.

[Truthseeker37]

Yes or no? It's pretty simple question. He doesn't answer the safety question, he changes the question and gives a different answer.

[MaximumAfterburner]

He cannot say what is exactly on his mind, because his command position means that his comments can have political ramifications. He has to be given credit for not lying.

[N3V3RM1ND25]

lol

You can clearly tell that Petraeus is just beating around the bush. While he won't admit it, deep down, he knows the Iraq War isn't making America any safer and that we shouldn't even be over there in the first place.

He obviously cannot say that, though, as that would basically diminish everything he and the brave men and women of the military have accomplish.

[fox23vang]

omg! its a simple yes explain and/or no explain.

[Dungias88]

Second, those critics have forgotten the lessons of Afghanistan: if America ceases to pay attention to dangerous part of the world, it will pay the costs in terms of life. Eventually, a new war in Iraq will happen. It will be the third one. It is time to finish the job.