Sen. Barack Obama and his San Francisco-liberal comrades' are bitter over the major military and political success in Iraq under General Petreaus's leadership.  They continue to cling to the Democrats' familiar but totally-discredited, pre-surge ‘General Betray-Us' mindset expressed by Sen. Harry Reid in 2007 when he falsely stated "the war is lost".  Therefore they have antipathy to anyone who does not share Obama's anti-American, anti-military, "Iraq is a quagmire"-defeatist mindset, a view he continues to hold in spite of the irrefutable evidence that the US military are achieving victory together with the elected Iraqi government and the newly-organized Iraqi Army.