Is David Petraeus a Lying Liar About the Drawdown?
Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them was former non-Senator Al Franken’s 2003 examination of the lies and distortions of right-wing pundits and politicians. Such a book, if it were written today, should certainly include a fair and balanced look at some of the lying liars still running our foreign policy: in particular, at Mr. David Petraeus. (Mr. Franken might not be the best candidate for writing such a book today, given that he voted recently against Senator Feingold’s amendment requiring the President to establish a timetable for military withdrawal from Afghanistan, even as Democratic leaders like Senator Durbin supported Feingold’s amendment.) Harsh words about Mr. Petraeus? Yes. Justified? Absolutely. Consider: Mr. Petraeus has been leading a campaign of “domestic information operations” to browbeat Congress and the American people to accept limiting the size of, and possibly even a delay of, the drawdown of US troops from Afghanistan in July 2011 that President Obama promised
