It takes a lot of gumption to say that you won’t listen to the miliary’s top commander in Iraq, because you know how the war is going better than he is.
It takes more gumption to ignore that general, then make stuff up to support your surrender-monkey position.
He left out, “Please don’t hurt me, Al Qaeda people, I’m on your side, see, see. Let me just bend over and grab my ankles!” (spoken in a whiney thin tone)