Time. This war has been about time. Always, more time. Endless time for an endless war.

Do yourself, your fellow man and your country a big favor today and tell the warmongering Petraeus to FUCK OFF ALREADY!

Top general in Iraq war to urge patience

WASHINGTON - The four’star general in charge of Iraq wants more time in a war that is now in its sixth year. Democrats say he’s got until the November elections.

Gen. David Petraeus planned to testify Tuesday on the war for the first time in seven months. He was expected to tell two Senate committees that last year’s influx of 30,000 troops in Iraq had helped calm some of the sectarian violence but that to prevent a backslide in security, troops would likely be needed in large numbers through the end of the year. [...]

Democrats contend that this approach guarantees an open-ended commitment to a $10-billion-a-month war as the economy at home is faltering. They say the lack of political progress made in Iraq, as well as the recent spike in violence in Basra, indicates the troop buildup has failed.

“We need a strategy that will clearly shift the burden to the Iraqis, that’ll begin to take the pressure off our forces, begin to allow us to respond to other challenges in the region and worldwide,” said Sen. Jack Reed, D-R.I., a member of the Armed Services Committee.

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