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corneliamcgillicutty

(176 posts)
Tue Nov 13, 2012, 07:48 PM Nov 2012

WHAT REALLY TICKS ME OFF ABOUT THIS SCANDAL

is that the military elite get all the media attention for their immorality and hypocrisy. Meanwhile thousands of the real heroes--our troops in harm's way--go about their lives no matter what they have endured as a result of these heinous wars. '

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WHAT REALLY TICKS ME OFF ABOUT THIS SCANDAL (Original Post) corneliamcgillicutty Nov 2012 OP
What gets me is all the attention people are upaloopa Nov 2012 #1
people who toss the word "elite" around Skittles Nov 2012 #2
I don't care at all about that part. morningfog Nov 2012 #4
Looks like this only came up today-- marions ghost Nov 2012 #5
I agree. hrmjustin Nov 2012 #3

upaloopa

(11,417 posts)
1. What gets me is all the attention people are
Tue Nov 13, 2012, 07:56 PM
Nov 2012

giving to this. Who really cares who some general is playing hide the sausage with?

 

morningfog

(18,115 posts)
4. I don't care at all about that part.
Tue Nov 13, 2012, 09:10 PM
Nov 2012

I am interested in the parts where leaks went to repug congressmen and classified information was found on computers and betrayus setting up RW think tanks in Afghanistan, etc.

marions ghost

(19,841 posts)
5. Looks like this only came up today--
Tue Nov 13, 2012, 09:29 PM
Nov 2012

"Which Conservative Think Tanks Was David Petraeus Courting?"
By Conor Friedersdorf

Nov 13 2012, 7:00 AM ET 9

The Washington Post says staffers from at least two "were given permanent office space at his headquarters and access to military aircraft."

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http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2012/11/which-conservative-think-tanks-was-david-petraeus-courting/265138/

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