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Title: I Was David Petraeus's Bitch in the 90s and I Hated Every Second of It
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VICE
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Published: Nov 21, 2012
Author: Larkin
Post Date: 2012-11-21 23:07:48 by Fred Mertz
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I WAS DAVID PETRAEUS'S BITCH IN THE 90S AND I HATED EVERY SECOND OF IT Over the weekend, the media went into a feeding frenzy over the big, juicy, red-meat news that David Petraeus, the former head of the CIA and onetime adored four-star general, had been banging his fawning biographer, Paula Broadwell. If you’ve been following this somewhat-less-than-Shakespearean tragedy, you’ll know by now they were getting it on under his desk—that giant oaken hunk of power that no doubt displayed a miniature American flag and framed photos of his family. When I read about this, I imagined those photos jumping around on top of the desk while the great conqueror of Iraq invaded that obsequious writer babe down below. Petraeus is the West Point general who wrote the book, literally, on counter-insurgency. For years, when all was doom and gloom in Iraq, he was America’s top warrior—a flag-saluting, straight-shooting strategic genius who always had time for the media; C-SPAN’s heroic general. Everybody loved this guy—especially the liver-spotted silver heads in Congress. Whenever Petraeus testified in the halls of power, they all showed up to pump his fist and spew superlatives. Someday, they said, Petraeus would be included in the prestigious pantheon of West Point military gods: Grant, MacArthur, Patton, and Eisenhower. [Snip] www.vice.com/read/i-was-d...-hated-every-second-of-it
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#1. To: Fred Mertz (#0)
Remember when some of us were trashed for the 'General "Betraeus" moniker? I could find reference but isn't worth my effort on this forum. Good to see you check in now and then, however...
It is not easy reconstructing 'molded minds'... You mean BetrayUs, of course. He's a disgrace to his profession and that is all I'm going to say about it. On second thought, guys like him claw their way to the top and don't care who they step on. Here's the thing; he thought he'd stay on since there were no charges and the investigation was quiet. Wanting to stay on made him the ultimate hypocrite in my book. Mr. Burns indeed - you have to read the article - op/ed to get that one.
Smedley Butler wrote War is a Racket and describes what we are doing to those soldiers we claim to respect so much: Boys with a normal viewpoint were taken out of the fields and offices and factories and classrooms and put into the ranks. There they were remolded; they were made over; they were made to "about face"; to regard murder as the order of the day. They were put shoulder to shoulder and, through mass psychology, they were entirely changed. We used them for a couple of years and trained them to think nothing at all of killing or of being killed. Then, suddenly, we discharged them and told them to make another "about face" ! This time they had to do their own readjustment, sans [without] mass psychology, sans officers' aid and advice and sans nation-wide propaganda. We didn't need them any more. So we scattered them about without any "three- minute" or "Liberty Loan" speeches or parades. Many, too many, of these fine young boys are eventually destroyed, mentally, because they could not make that final "about face" alone. In the government hospital in Marion, Indiana, 1,800 of these boys are in pens! Five hundred of them in a barracks with steel bars and wires all around outside the buildings and on the porches. These already have been mentally destroyed. These boys don't even look like human beings. Oh, the looks on their faces! Physically, they are in good shape; mentally, they are gone. After all this, some of these guys run for public office!
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