The right-wing will do ANYTHING to avoid any actual discussion of the war. Petraeus did betray us. According to even the Pentagon, his numbers about violence were incorrect. He played up pre-surge numbers while downplaying post-surge violence. They have a team that works for Petreaus that decides how to count casualties. This entire “surge is working” argument is just being accepted as fact by the lapdog mainstream media. You have to wonder at some point if the media lapdogs’ corporate masters simply want us to remain in this war forever, so they can keep all those government contracts flowing, and continue to profit off all those “missing” billions of dollars.

I can’t believe this is the same country I once served. We’ve become a sad joke. We are in dire need of real leaders at every level of our government and military.

btw his “during my 16 years in the military”- refers to his playing with g.i. joe “action” figures, where likely he choked on g.i. joe’s helmet.

the betrayal of a trust or confidence; breach of faith; treachery.

That certainly describes what General Betrayus did. He betrayed our trust and the trust of his troops.

Comment by bilbobaggins — September 26, 2007 @ 11:38 pm

You are absolutely correct on your observation. The #1 meaning I find for the word betray is “to lead astray”. Isn’t that exactly what MoveOn was referring in that ad? But, the Right needed to hijack the definition and make it mean treason so they can then use it to bash and condemn progressives and everyone not condoning this illegal occupation and immoral war. I am bitterly disappointed that Democrats in Congress can’t see that this is simply distracting political theater by the Party of Hypocrites.

How about the Democrats offer up a resolution condemning attacks by swift boaters on the reputation of Max Cleland and John Kerry? Let see how many Republicans join us on that ’sense of the Senate’ motion? I doubt 1 would sign on to that.

You love it — that’s why you spend so much time here.

Who does this refer to??

Mom, will you come over here and sit on my lap ?

∞

He said “Childrens do learn”. It seemed to be an answer to the question he posed several years ago when he asked “Is our children learning?”

Canada’s relationship with the United States is stalled thanks to an “unhealthy” trend in the U.S. toward nationalism and away from deeper economic ties, Prime Minister Stephen Harper told a prestigious foreign policy think-tank here yesterday.

He said he was “deeply concerned” that the political discourse in the U.S. had been infected by “populism, protectionism and nationalism in an unhealthy sense.”

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rest http://www.thestar.com/News/Canada/article/260643

Harper takes shot at Bush administration

The Prime Minister delivered a speech and took questions for more than an hour from the members of the Council on Foreign Relations, a non-partisan organization and resource for foreign affairs discussion.

In his speech, Harper emphasized the “shared values” of Canada and the U.S., and seemed taken by surprise when an audience member asked why, despite these common traits, Canada was not hated internationally, as is the U.S.
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The American administration is, to be frank, more widely unpopular than the United States itself, but that’s an issue for American domestic politics.”
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The shot at the administration of U.S. President George Bush was surprising from a prime minister seen as the most pro-American since Brian Mulroney.

But Liberal foreign affairs critic Ujjal Dosanjh said Harper was “simply acknowledging the truth.” In light of the Prime Minister’s comments, Dosanjh said he was puzzled that the government has set a foreign policy that is so closely aligned with the U.S. “I’m sorry to use the same old expression; he remains an echo of the U.S. whether it’s on Afghanistan, whether it’s on Kyoto,” Dosanjh said in a telephone interview from Vancouver.

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rest http://www.thestar.com/News/Canada/article/260643

If you as a Right Wing Loon choose to interpret the word “betray” as to mean treason, that’s your problem. I see it as he is betraying his country and his men by not telling the truth, the whole truth not just the partial truths he cherry picked. Actually, now that you think about it, that does have the ring of treason to it. One of the definitions of treason is:

the betrayal of a trust or confidence; breach of faith; treachery.

That certainly describes what General Betrayus did. He betrayed our trust and the trust of his troops.