Steve Benen, The Carpetbagger Report AlterNet: Election 2008. May 30, 2008. The Senator improperly exploits the general to raise money for his campaign.
dday, Hullabaloo AlterNet: PEEK. May 22, 2008. In a briefing on the Hill today, Gen. Petraeus once again urged the nation to wait just a few more months for improvements in Iraq.
Ilan Goldenberg, Huffington Post. April 23, 2008. As the head of U.S. Central Command, Petraeus will have to answer some tough questions he has thus far been able to avoid.
Liliana Segura, AlterNet AlterNet: War on Iraq. April 23, 2008. Weeks after defending the war before Congress, General David Petraeus is tapped to become the head of U.S. Central Command.
Steve Niva, Foreign Policy in Focus. April 23, 2008. Through its awful Iraq strategy, the U.S. is re-creating itself in the image of a country permanently at war with the Arab and Muslim world.
Ira Chernus, AlterNet. April 10, 2008. The Petraeus hearings trapped Democrats into talking about whether the 'surge' is working, not that the U.S. has no right to be there.
David Corn, Mother Jones. April 9, 2008. Petraeus' testimony was predictable: Progress is real, we must stay the course. But Democrats missed an opportunity to undercut the White House story.
Bobby Muller, AlterNet. April 8, 2008. General Petraeus calls for a pause against troop withdrawal, disregarding the fact that our military is nearly broken.
Tom Engelhardt, TheNation.com. April 8, 2008. Gen. David Petraeus ought to level with the American public about the dire state of affairs in Iraq in his testimony to Congress this week.
Gareth Porter, IPS News. April 8, 2008. The effort is an indication that the operation was viewed as a major embarrassment just as Gen. David Petraeus is about to testify before Congress.
Matt Stoller, Open Left AlterNet: PEEK. April 6, 2008. It is clear that DC Democrats have several different lines of messaging going on that work against each other.
Steve Benen, The Carpetbagger Report AlterNet: PEEK. March 25, 2008. All of this, of course, comes in the midst of a discussion about U.S. troop levels, which the president is apparently prepared to leave as-is.
Matt Corley, Think Progress AlterNet: War on Iraq. March 14, 2008. Fallon's "premature departure" at least partially "stemmed" from policy disagreements with Gen. Petraeus, "a favorite of the White House."
Steve Benen, The Carpetbagger Report AlterNet: PEEK. March 11, 2008. If Thomas is “the most impressive conservative in American public life,” the right is in much deeper trouble than I’d realized.
Amanda Terkel, Think Progress AlterNet: War on Iraq. January 23, 2008. These six months appear to be never-ending, and are used by the right wing to constantly beg more time for the war.
Manila Ryce, AlterNet: Video. October 12, 2007. Black says, "Let me get this straight, Republicans read the Sunday Times, and it's an ad that gets them angry!?"
