Daily Show: Petraeus and Bush must be friends on MySpace
Jon Stewart cautioned on Tuesday against the recent over-hyping of the Iraq report from General Petraeus.
"His powers have not always been so great," Stewart warned. "For instance, six weeks before the 2004 presidential election, General Petraeus wrote a Washington Post op-ed about the Iraq War that was so upbeat you would have thought the insurgency was in its last throes."
Stewart then turned to Petraeus's testimony before Congress, saying, "We keep hearing from President Bush how the surge is meeting its military objectives but we need more time. Well, yesterday the good general was whistling a different tune."
"The military objectives of the surge are in large measure being met. ... It will take time," testified Petraeus.
"My god," whispered Stewart. "The president's been right the whole time." He then played a series of additional clips of Petraeus echoing earlier Bush comments. "Wow! I bet they're friends on MySpace!" Stewart exclaimed.
Stewart also commented on Petraeus's many charts and graphs, noting gravely, "It's an important reminder that our troops and the Iraqis aren't just fathers, sons, mothers, and sisters. They're also statistics."
Finally, after playing Petraeus's extensive warnings of chaos and slaughter if we leave Iraq prematurely, Stewart concluded, "But that's what happened when we went into Iraq -- wait a minute! Going in is the same as leaving? My god, it's a wormhole! No wonder we can't do it. It's a Mobius strip!"
The following video is from Comedy Central's Daily Show, broadcast on September 11, 2007.
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