He went to Congress and repeated the lie about the nasty anti-Muslim video being the cause of the Benghazi attacks and murders. His usefulness done, he fell under the infidelity sword Barry’s AG had hanging over his head since before election day.
To at least one observer, retired Army Colonel Douglas MacGregor—a Desert Storm combat veteran whose caustic battle book Warrior’s Rage rants against careerist, non-combat generals like Petraeus—he had it coming.
“Petraeus is a remarkable piece of fiction created and promoted by neocons in government, the media and academia…Petraeus was always a useful fool in the Leninist sense for his political superiors….”
And when the fool was no longer useful, Barry exiled him in permanent shame. Now he seems to be telling a new story in Congressional hearings, setting Democrats and Republicans to arguing about what it means.
There’s a clue to the reason behind Gen. P.’s downfall in old photographs of him in uniform: the “chest candy” (once called “fruit salad” in a more modest epoch) that precedes his smile. He wears every ribbon for every paper-pusher medal he ever received as a staff officer and aide to generals, plus more shiny badges than even Colonel Qaddafi used to wear, if not as large. He did dispense with Daffy Duck’s sash. Who knows, in the egotistical, banana-republic style of today’s generals and admirals, he may have one.
Makes you think he wasn’t really very sure of himself, which may explain why he threw his marriage and his children to the winds for a fling with his nubile biographer. He may well have done it before but wasn’t caught.
THE TEXAS SCRIBBLER 