Petraeus Announces for President After All

[davidswanson]

My name is General David Petraeus and I want to be your Commander in Chief because I admire everything about you, especially that amazing and unique way you have about you.

Here's a little background on who I am, just a few highlights that I know you will be able to appreciate.

http://asskissinglittlechickenshit.com

[EFerrari]

1. LOL!

[BrklynLiberal]

2. Self-serving twit.

[LakeSamish706]

3. And I wonder how many asswipes like this we have out there in the waiting?

I'm certain that we will Jeb Bush trying to make a run in the not to distant future!

[msongs]

4. Bush/Cheney generals run the military at this very moment nt

[proud2BlibKansan]

5. Great picture!

:thumbsup:

[MidwestRick]

6. Your joke...

...ends up getting pointed at every military member who has earned those awards/ribbons. Poor timing with the meaning of this weekend coming up. Boo to you.

-MR

[Enrique]

7. omg blasphemy!

did that website get hit by lightning yet? :rofl:

[olegramps]

8. He looks like one of those ridiculously adorned Russian Generals.

[MidwestRick]

9. Would you prefer

he wear none? Because those are his options. Wear all of your awards...or none. Also, I'd like for you to find another military member that has served as long as Patraeus has that doesn't have that many awards and ribbons. You'll find that many of those awards came from being part of different US military operations.

-MR

[olegramps]

12. Eventhough the high ranking officers are in absolutely no danger the get award for being there.

As they move from one command to another they garner in more and more awards. I have several officers in my family, my brother was a colonel and would have been made a general until he became ill, and they have been very critical of the practice.

[MidwestRick]

14. Of course they aren't

this isn't the days where the CO lead the troops on horseback.

They sit back behind the lines and direct the troops, they oversee operations...good or bad. With that all said, to make fun of a General who has 7 or 8 tiers of ribbons is silly and misguided.

-MR

[ItNerd4life]

10. This isn't funny. Especially with it being Memorial day weekend.

[AsahinaKimi]

15. agreed.

I have a friend I visit in the VA hospital. I intend on seeing him on Memorial Day, as he is a Vet Nam Vet, and hope to bring him a little cheer. This kind of display is very insulting to Veterans.

Oh and may all you Veterans have a great Memorial Day!

[KBlagburn]

11. I'm a Veteran and this is offensive

This is very offensive to every veteran. I am a decorated veteran and I did not earn a single one from ass kissing. And as has been pointed out, very bad timing with memorial day coming up.

[ShortnFiery]

13. Petraeus will open up a can of worms if he runs: Colonel Westhusing's ...

"apparent suicide" was NEVER fully investigated. I would love to know the whole story surrounding this death (Corruption of Private Contractors in Iraq and the Military who served them) to include any involvement by his superior officer General "Peaches" Petraeus.



http://www.huffingtonpost.com/greg-mitchell/gen-petraeus-and-a-high-l_b_94458.html

http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/archives/004022.php

"In e-mails to his family," Miller wrote, "Westhusing seemed especially upset by one conclusion he had reached: that traditional military values such as duty, honor and country had been replaced by profit motives in Iraq, where the U.S. had come to rely heavily on contractors for jobs once done by the military." His death followed quickly. "He was sick of money-grubbing contractors," one official recounted. Westhusing said that "he had not come over to Iraq for this." After a three-month inquiry, investigators declared Westhusing's death a suicide.

Last March, The Texas Observer published a cover story by contributor Robert Bryce titled "I Am Sullied No More." It is featured in a chapter in my new book on Iraq and the media.

Bryce covered much of the same ground paved by Miller but added details on the Petraeus angle. Now, in the past few weeks, Bryce has added more in an update -- which explores whether Westhusing was murdered.

"When he was in Iraq, Westhusing worked for one of the most famous generals in the U.S. military, David Petraeus," Bryce observed last year. "As the head of counterterrorism and special operations under Petraeus, Westhusing oversaw the single most important task facing the U.S. military in Iraq then and now: training the Iraqi security forces."


http://majikthise.typepad.com/majikthise_/2007/03/military_ethici.html

Now, a new article reveals -- based on documents obtained under the Freedom of Information Act -- that Westhusing's apparent suicide note included claims that his two commanders tolerated a mission based on "corruption, human right abuses and liars." One of those commanders: the new leader of the "surge" campaign in Iraq, Gen. David Petraeus.

Robert Bryce of the Texas Observer obtained Westhusing's suicide note which reads:

Thanks for telling me it was a good day until I briefed you. —You are only interested in your career and provide no support to your staff—no msn support and you don’t care. I cannot support a msn that leads to corruption, human right abuses and liars. I am sullied—no more. I didn’t volunteer to support corrupt, money grubbing contractors, nor work for commanders only interested in themselves. I came to serve honorably and feel dishonored. I trust no Iraqi. I cannot live this way. All my love to my family, my wife and my precious children. I love you and trust you only. Death before being dishonored any more. Trust is essential—I don’t know who trust anymore. Why serve when you cannot accomplish the mission, when you no longer believe in the cause, when your every effort and breath to succeed meets with lies, lack of support, and selfishness? No more. Reevaluate yourselves, cdrs . You are not what you think you are and I know it.

COL Ted Westhusing

Life needs trust. Trust is no more for me here in Iraq.

Bryce confirms earlier reports Westhusing was particularly distraught by the corruption of the private military contractors.

[jobwithout]

16. You are disgusting

He is one of our soldiers who helps to protect your right to be an idiot.