Sharon’s just a run-of-the-mill troll with a slightly better vocabulary.

Those “false claims” were actually made by Bush administration officials, Sharon:

Despite Bush’s repeated statements that the report will reflect evaluations by Petraeus and Ryan Crocker, the U.S. ambassador to Iraq, administration officials said it would actually be written by the White House, with inputs from officials throughout the government. (cite

That the White House received a copy before the report was given

They wrote it, Sharon: of course they had a copy before it was delivered to Congress. The White House proposed in August that their report should be delivered to Congress by the secretaries of state and defense: you can’t deliver what you don’t have.

That Democrats “didn’t believe him” when he told them the surge was working.

How can this be a false statement? I mean, even if you want to claim that the surge is “working” (of which there are no signs: Iraqis are still leaving the country rather than stay) if Democratic politicians decided they didn’t believe the “General Petraeus” report, authored by the White House, that the surge that Bush had insisted on was working, it’s not a false statement for them to say so.

Why don’t you do a damn Google search of liberal sites. It’s not hard to find.

No, it wasn’t. Why didn’t you do a damn Google search of news sites – as I just did – and find out that the Bush administration made no secret of the fact that the White House was writing the “General Petraeus” report.

Sharon, baby girl, you need to learn that when there is online evidence that you can’t delete that you deal with arguments you lose by deleting comments and freezing threads, there’s no point whining about people pointing out that this is what you do.

The God of Bloggers shall strike thee down, Sharon!

Indeed the metrics of violence have revealed a rather limited picture of the “success” of the surge. For one thing, it has only returned us to previous levels of unacceptable violence, not to an era of non-violence in Iraq. For another, the success of ethnic cleansing has reduced the demand for murder in Iraq, because there’s fewer Shiites or Sunnis left in the wrong territory to lynch. Some reports have cited increases of violence where US troops aren’t, and soldiers have definitely been taking increased deaths.

There were credible reports from the Washington Post among others that Petraeus’ methods of calculating the violence were suspect.

And, of course, the point of the surge was to buy time for political reconciliation and solving problems. That part didn’t happen, so no, the surge hasn’t worked yet. Yes, we can throw more troops and expect to see some decrease of violence, but yes, we can get stuck in that cycle in Iraq for 30-40 years using the same logic. Whoopty doo.

Anyway, the point was to thank the Universe that you nutjob incompetents are out of power. Look at you, in the minority, still fucking everything up by filibustering constantly to protect the agenda of a failed and disgraceful president.

Among other things, that the White House wrote General Petraeus’ report. That the White House received a copy before the report was given. That Democrats “didn’t believe him” when he told them the surge was working. Why don’t you do a damn Google search of liberal sites. It’s not hard to find.

And Jes, geez, you need to grow up and move along. I know some people don’t mind you lying about them or their positions. Some people seemingly love watching you lie. But no, I’m not one of them. Especially once you were warned not to do it.

First-hand account of the ‘liberation’ of Iraq.

BTW, what false claims were made about General Petraeus in September?

i knew there was a reason i avoided liberal blogs.