Petraeus plotting strategy with Republicans


According to Andrea Mitchell, General Petraeus held a closed door meeting with Congressional Republicans to plead for their political support for his war. If this is true, it is yet another but of Republican overreach that the Democrats should start investigating.

The general has every right to his political opinions, and every obligation to keep them to himself so long as he is on active duty in the American military. He certainly has no business plotting strategy with one political party against another.

So far as I know, the general is not covered by executive privilege. Since he has time to meet with Republicans, he has time to appear at a Congressional hearing, where he should share his opinions with the entire nation, including us Democrats, and where he should also explain how he came to be in that room with those Republicans. As Senator Boxer said, "elections have consequences". The Republicans can't quite come to terms with the fact that they're not running everything anymore, and apparently General Petraeus' political intelligence is about as bad as the WMD intelligence that Bush ginned up to start his war, since he doesn't seem to be aware of the facts on the ground either.

They really should haul his ass before a Congressional committee. I'm sure there's one out there that isn't booked solid investigating other members of the Bush crime family.
Posted: Sunday - April 01, 2007 at 04:54 PM          

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