(regretfully, am)

Yep. But there might be a day or two between when he breaks it and when he is relieved of command. That will be the first shitstorm.

Then if in response to that, he is left in command, that is the second one.

But if he is relieved, there will be a shitstorm from a different direction.

And why must we automatically assume that he is carrying out orders that come from the President? He carries out orders that come from Petraeus. In one sense, he doesn’t ask where Petraeus’s orders are coming from unless he get explicitly instructed from Washington, which bypasses Petraeus and makes him let his pique be known to the press and the minority party on the Armed Services committees.

Bureaucrats and generals routinely try to nullify those parts of their tasking that they don’t like.

I am thinking US tossing the Geneva Convention with torture, etc., is a supportive move to our international crony, Israel, since Israel has tossed out Geneva Convention long ago in terms of Gaza. Talk about being on the same regressive and repressive page!

G.W.Bush was quite correct when he claimed after flying out to the U.S.S. Abraham Lincoln,an American attack aircraft carrier,that this was a ‘Mission Accomplished’ for the Americans in Iraq.

Which mission? Getting WashingtonDC,the Pentagon and lots of Americans into Iraq,taking out Saddam’s regime,giving Iraq a big dose of Shock Doctrine and essentially running up the Stars and Stripes over Iraqi oil fields for all practical purposes.

That massive American Embassy in Baghdad,several American super-bases across Iraq and USAF full control of Iraqi airspace for years to come all point to what was “accomplished” in Iraq.

Gen.Odierno is the current front man for American Occupation of Iraq.

Let’s see if President Obama fires him for being off mission or backs him up and tells Iraqis to take what they are given by Americans,like it and expect more to come.

Israel surely wants an American Overlordship in Iraq and WashingtonDC surely wants sway in and over Iraq to menace Iran as desired or sought.

President Obama is free to do whatever he thinks will move forward what was started in Iraq by WashingtonDC in March 2003 until a few months ahead of 2012 election when he can whiplash Americans politically in bid to get four more years in WH. This Democrat run WH is as much for being in Iraq as the recently departed GOP run WH. Only difference being Democrats think they can do it in smarter policy ways.