Saturday, January 10, 2015

WTF

What never ceases to amaze me is how public officials think they can get away with things like f..king around. In this media world, forget it. Give me a break. Take Petraeus. F..king around with a woman doing his biography. He was/is an egotistical maniac. I never liked him. It was nothing personal but realized that he constantly took credit for others' ideas. The so called "surge" was one of them. It was actually a LTC's idea who was an Army Squadron Commander. And, Paetraeus was elevated to sainthood by beginning a new chapter in prosecuting  the war in Iraq, which was nothing more than paying the Sunnis off. When we quit paying them, they went back to fighting us and blowing things and people up. And, Petraeus, of course, called it counter insurgency. It was really successful, right? Look at Iraq now. It isn't all Petraeus' fault but lots. He "snowed" the President and for that he should be ashamed. 

All that bullshit being said, let him go. The idea of prosecuting him is some asshole lawyer's attempt to "get" Petraeus, the former darling of the Press Corp, plus a few headlines themselves. As July Johnson of "Lonesome Dove" said when he thought the Indians had stolen his wife. "I got bigger fish to fry." There you have it. We have bigger fish to fry than Petraeus. 

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