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GOP's Hunter Gets Exposure at Petraeus Hearing
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ABC News' Z. Byron Wolf Reports: None of the 2008 presidential candidates will have a better soap box for airing their opinions on Gen. Petraeus' report to Congress than Rep. Duncan Hunter of California, the ranking Republican on the House Armed Services Committee.
Though Hunter is far from a front-runner in the 2008 candidate pool, the congressman has serious national security chops.
As the panel's ranking GOP member, Hunter was the first Republican who got the mic at today's hearing.
"One of the great assets of this country is the professionalism and the capability and the integrity of the people who lead our armed forces," said Hunter at the outset of the hearing. "General Petraeus is coming back, not just as guy who's going to give us his take on the Iraq situation, but as the leader of more than 160,000 American personnel in uniform in Iraq."
Hunter is a great supporter of the war in Iraq generally, the surge and General Petraeus specifically and took his opportunity to stick up for Gen. Petraeus, who he said is not getting a fair shake by anti-war groups. Moveon.org took out a full page ad in the New York Times today that read, "General Petraeus or General Betray Us."
Hunter continued: "They're not only watching his testimony, but they're also watching our testimony. They're watching how we treat him. They're watching this Congress to see if we give credibility to what people in uniform say."
"And so, Mr. Chairman, I think it's an outrage that we spent the last week prepping the ground, bashing the credibility of a general officer whose trademark is integrity, who was unanimously supported by the U.S. Senate for his position. And unanimity in the U.S. Senate is almost a majority these days."
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Posted by: QUESTION HILLARY™ | Sep 11, 2007 9:45:54 AM
Duncan Hunter is nuts, far right wing hawk,the fact that he's The ranking Republican on the House Armed Services Committee is really frighting.
Posted by: Sandra Lea | Sep 12, 2007 5:25:44 PM
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