Comments on: The hypocrisy of David Petraeus

By: Schadenfreude

Schadenfreude — Fri, 16 Nov 2012 02:57:14 +0000

lester, you dummy. You have no clue, hardly ever.

Learn how to search.

By: VorDaj

VorDaj — Fri, 16 Nov 2012 02:56:41 +0000

Douglas Macgregor (retired Army colonel and author of “Breaking the Phalanx): “Petraeus is a remarkable piece of fiction created and promoted by neocons in government, the media and academia, How does an officer with no personal experience of direct fire combat in Panama or Desert Storm become a division CDR in 2003, man who for 35 years shamelessly reinforced whatever dumb idea his superior advanced regardless of its impact on soldiers, let alone the nation, a man who served repeatedly as a sycophantic aide-de-camp, military assistant and executive officer to four stars get so far? How does the same man who balked at closing with and destroying the enemy in 2003 in front of Baghdad agree to sacrifice more than a thousand American lives and destroy thousands of others installing Iranian national power in Baghdad with a surge that many in and out of uniform warned against? Then, how does this same man repeat the self-defeating tactics one more time in Afghanistan? The answer is simple: Petraeus was always a useful fool in the Leninist sense for his political superiors — Wolfowitz, Rumsfeld, and Gates. And that is precisely how history will judge him.”.

By: lester

lester — Fri, 16 Nov 2012 02:49:31 +0000

The arms Hamas is using against Israel right now – came to Hamas via Libya. Nice job Obama and Panetta! Schadenfreude on November 15, 2012 at 8:53 PM

Of course. Now that Syria, "Iran's route to the sea" is in shambles, Iran has to use Libya as an alternative route to reach Hamas.

By: Schadenfreude

Schadenfreude — Fri, 16 Nov 2012 01:53:55 +0000

The arms Hamas is using against Israel right now – came to Hamas via Libya. Nice job Obama and Panetta!

By: Schadenfreude

Schadenfreude — Fri, 16 Nov 2012 01:52:54 +0000

Plus, Honda, I like Satan a lot better.

By: Schadenfreude

Schadenfreude — Fri, 16 Nov 2012 01:51:28 +0000

HondaV65 on November 15, 2012 at 8:46 PM

On matters CIA you can’t tell me a single word, you fool.

Plus, I am never on your side, and you never on mine.

Plus, all the CIA of today is – lawyers and CYA.

He is a likeable dummy.

By: Schadenfreude

Schadenfreude — Fri, 16 Nov 2012 01:48:22 +0000

HondaV65 on November 15, 2012 at 8:30 PM

Your reading comprehension is not very good. Nowhere did Peters say that DP fraternized.

By: HondaV65

HondaV65 — Fri, 16 Nov 2012 01:46:19 +0000

Panetta is a clueless likeable dummy. Ok, so he might be “a good man” but he has held two jobs which are entirely above his brain-capacity. He fits the admin. to perfection.

Schadenfreude on November 15, 2012 at 8:28 PM

You just don’t like him because he’s a dimmocrit.

Truth is – the guy was slammed for being inexperienced at CIA – but he did a damn good job there – especially in the CIA’s war on terror and expansion of drone strikes.

And … let’s remember here … that right after Ogabe appointed Panetta to the CIA – Obama personally went to their HQ and made a demoralizing speech right to the faces of the agents. Remember also – that Justice and Eric Holder were looking at prosecuting certain CIA agents for their interrogative procedures.

Panetta stepped into a job leading an organization whose morale was destroyed – and whose employees were fearful of doing their job lest they be prosecuted by their own government.

And yet – somehow he whipped them into shape … expanded the drone strikes – which were very successful – and ran down Osama Bin Laden.

Yeah – he’s a “bad guy” alright.

Don’t you ever feel foolish? You talk about our “enemies” as if they are Satan. They kicked your ass in an election – and you’re not going to get the upper hand on them in the future through obsessive “shot gun” accusations each and every time one of the raises his or her head.

By: slickwillie2001

slickwillie2001 — Fri, 16 Nov 2012 01:34:41 +0000

Yes, her book was ‘ghost-written’, -I heard that elsewhere today. Her ghost-writer is commenting now. The book was still bad, apparently unreadable.

By: HondaV65

HondaV65 — Fri, 16 Nov 2012 01:30:39 +0000

he rigorously enforced “General Order No. 1,” which prohibits our troops from fraternization, all sex, alcohol consumption, the possession of pornography and, generally, from any activity that might make the boredom and terror of this kind of war more bearable. When our troops screwed up, they got hammered.

Where’s DP’s PORN Ralfie? He had no PORN.

FRATERNIZATION? Ralfie seems to be too old to remember what that means – Broadwell wasn’t military and didn’t work for DP – so it wasn’t fraternization.

Rules against “all sex” – really Mr Hyperbole?

Ralf Dickerson is a lunatic.