Will Grigg's Liberty Minute

September 18, 2007

During the first day of his much-hyped congressional testimony regarding the troop surge in Iraq, Gen. David Petraeus made a stunning admission: The Bush administration's strategy in Iraq has nothing to do with the safety and security of the United States.

Republican Senator John Warner, a former Secretary of the Navy, asked Petraeus: "[I]f we continue what you have laid before the Congress here as a strategy, do you feel that that is making America safer?"

The General answered: "Sir, I believe this is indeed the best course of action to achieve our objectives in Iraq."

Senator Warner pressed the issue, asking: "Does that make America safer?"

To which Petraeus replied: "Sir, I, I don't know, actually. I have not sat down and sorted [it] in my own mind."

When even the General in overall command of the Iraq war can't make a clear case that continuing it makes America safer, it is obvious that we should end it immediately.

Let us take back the liberty wherewith Christ has made us free.