Petraeus hearings – McCain becomes New Ager while Cornyn and Graham are wingnut suckups

Schmuck Talk Express™ says “We should choose to succeed.”

Just like that, eh? “Believe it and it will happen,” like some New Age mantra?

OK, Schmuck Talk, do you choose to follow Gen. Shinseki and put 500,000 troops in Iraq, although it’s too late for even that to succeed? Tell us what you’re going to do to actually create “success,” you deceitful warmonger.

Meanwhile, whether it’s a sign of old age in general, Alzheimer’s in particular, or what, McCain still can’t keep his Shia’s and Sunnis straight, calling al-Qaeda a Shi’a group.

Meanwhile, Texas quite-junior junior senator, John Cornyn, wants to almost literally run Petraeus up the flagpole and salute him with this petition:

Please know that we in Texas support you and all of the men and women serving our country with honor. We have entrusted you with a mission and respect the dignity you bring to our country and the job of leading our military in such a dangerous region of the world.

My response?

I pledge allegiance to the stupidity, wingnuttery and head-up-bunghole denialism of the junior senator from Texas, for the me for whom he does not stand, etc. etc.

Signed: Monty Python, at theholygrail@gmail.com.

Lindsey Graham, meanwhile, thinks Petraeus deserves a fifth star. For what? Being a politician?

And, where would we be without the neocomic relief of Joe Lieberman, claiming Iraq has had more political reconciliation than the U.S.

I guess he thinks that in Maliki’s Iraq, “reconciliation” flows from the barrel of a Mao-like gun.