Day 2, rounds #3 and #4. This time the dog&pony show moves to the frat house.. errr, the congresscritters gets a briefing. This is gonna turn into a zoo



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Today at 9am (ET) on C-SPAN3
House Armed Services Cmte. Hearing with Amb. Ryan Crocker & Gen. David Petraeus

Today at 1:30pm (ET) on C-SPAN3
House Foreign Relations Cmte. Hearing with Amb. Ryan Crocker & Gen. David Petraeus

http://www.c-span.org/
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Petraeus is doing the best he can I think. He's trying to clean up a s***ty situation created by incompetent people.

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Obviously that solved the problem once and for all, and they need more time, and Petraeus still can't say what we're doing in Iraq is making us safer.

well that was kinda informative. I saw only a little bit but the congresscritters seemed to be behaving.



bits I got:

After a year, only 3 out of 18 benchmarks were met.

Gen P lubs his Soldiers-Of-Islam tribal mercenaries.

Rep. Walter Jones (R-NC) made a very good statement.

Oh, and Sweden is in. Gonna provide diplomatic services or some such. Apparently SecState ScarySpice is just too damm scary.

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