Bad News For The Jihad, Good News For The US Military

Now the architect of the Iraq surge that has Al Queda running back to their caves with camels and cell phones in tow is being moved up to run the entire war effort in both Iraq and Afghanistan at Centcom, very bad news for the Taliban and Al Queda.

The only bad part is that he now has to go back to capitol hill and listen to these headline grabbing camera happy empty suits in order to be confirmed for the position, something that always makes my stomach turn.

That being having to see a man of dedication, honor and unblemished lifetime service to his country like General Petraeus have to sit there and take loads of crap from many of those bloviating, self serving democratic congressional idiots as he's been forced to do time and time again during this war.

Here's wishing Good luck to the General in thoroughly defeating America's sworn enemies both on the battlefields of sandland, in Washington as well as around the country here at home in the form of liberal democrats that hate the military and the country with as much fervor as many of our enemies.

General David Petraeus Tapped To Head Central Command,
Ray Odierno To Become Overall Iraq Commander:

cbs3.com - "WASHINGTON (CBS) ― Army Gen. David Petraeus, the four-star general who led troops in Iraq for the past year, will be nominated by President Bush to be the next commander of U.S. Central Command, Defense Secretary Robert Gates said Wednesday.

Gates also announced that Bush will nominate Army Lt. Gen. Ray Odierno to replace Petraeus in Baghdad.

Central Command oversees the wars in Iraq and in Afghanistan.

If confirmed by the Senate, Petraeus would replace Navy Adm. William Fallon, who abruptly stepped down in March after a magazine reported that he was at odds with President Bush over Iran policy. Fallon said the report, while not true, had become a distraction.

At a hastily arranged Pentagon news conference, Gates said the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, and other problems in the Central Command area of responsibility, demand knowledge of how to fight counterinsurgencies as well as other unconventional conflicts."

"I don't know anybody in the U.S. military better qualified to lead that effort," he said, referring to Petraeus.

Army Lt. Gen. Ray Odierno, currently commander of the Army's 3rd Corps based at Fort Hood, Texas, finished in February a 15-month tour as the top deputy to Petraeus in Baghdad. He had been nominated for promotion to full general and assignment as the Army's vice chief of staff, but Gates said the Fallon resignation changed the plan. With Odierno tapped for a return to Baghdad, Gates said Bush will nominate Gates' senior military assistant, Army Lt. Gen. Peter Chiarelli, for the Army vice chief of staff job.

Gates thanked Odierno for agreeing to serve another tour in Iraq, this time as overall commander. continued

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