Robert Scheer on Gen. Petraeus
"Everything His President Wants to Hear" -- General Betray Us? Of course
he
has. MoveOn.org can hardly be expected to recycle its slogan from last
September, when Gen. David Petraeus testified in sup****t of escalating the
U.S. war in Iraq, given the hysterical denunciations that worthy group
received at the time. But it was right then-as it would be to repeat the
charge now.
By undercutting the widespread sup****t for getting out of Iraq, Petraeus
did
indeed betray the American public, siding with an enormously unpopular
president who wants to stay the course in Iraq for personal and political
reasons that run contrary to genuine national security interests.
Why do we expect the generals to lead us on the path to peace when that is
the professional task of statesmen and not warriors?
It betrays the legacy warnings of our two most famous wartime generals,
George Wa****ngton and Dwight D. Eisenhower.
http://www.truthdig.com/re****t/item/20080409_everything_his_president_wants_to_hear/
Petraeus answered his first question from a written statement in front of
him. He read it as if he already knew what the first question was going
to
be and never even addressed the question, which the Senator had to repeat.
In that statement he said we got rid of a saddam, who was a bad man and
did
bad things to his people! Which, of course, wasn't the intent of "Bush's
War" to begin with.
He's a Yes Man for Bush and I wouldn't have expected him to say anything
different than what he did and that was NOT to answer the question but
skirt
around it! He is a war criminal and a scoundrel to boot.
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