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Born at the Crest of the Empire

Monday, June 18, 2007

Picture of the Day




General David Petraeus, commander of U.S. military forces in Iraq (L), eats a pastry he bought on a walking tour of the Mutanabi Street bookmarket June 14, 2007 in Baghdad, Iraq. (Chris Hondros/Getty)

posted by mikevotes at 6:27 AM

7 Comments:

  • Oh look....heavily armed Americans in armoured vests walking through Baghdad. Everything's back to normal.

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at 8:51 AM  

  • The Us military gets to choose which of these photos gets released for security reasons.

    I saw four of them, and none of them showed the large military presence that must've been with him.

    By Blogger mikevotes, at 9:06 AM  

  • If the object of spending BILLIONS of taxpayer dollars, 3,500+ American lives, and the lives of untold Iraqi civilians was to ensure a heavily armed and armored general can eat local confections, then I say "Well done!"

    Now let's declare victory, draw down the military occupation and begin the diplomatic and humanitarian work necessary to bring this failed state to a functioning state.

    By Blogger -epm, at 9:36 AM  

  • Wonder what office he's running for?

    By Blogger Lew Scannon, at 6:01 PM  

  • SecDef in a GOP admin?

    By Blogger -epm, at 7:09 PM  

  • I doubt he'll be viable for anything after this all plays out.

    By Blogger mikevotes, at 8:57 PM  

  • The only unknown in our failing efforts to bring democracy to Iraq is the number of American dead and wounded necessary to turn the remaining GOP hawks against their "Moron-in-Chief."

    By Blogger BobbyV, at 7:47 AM  

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