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With an unforunate number of voters, possibly a majority, she will get away with it as did Bill Clinton. They stake out every side of every issue and can always quote the public record wherein they took the most popular position, when it comes time to vote.

Reporter: ‘Hillary, Petraeus has been proven wrong about the surge, what do you say?’ Hillary: “Didn’t I call him a liar during the hearings?’

Reporter: “Hilary, the surge is working, we are winning, Petraeus was right, what do you say?’ Hillary: ‘Didn’t I say he was a our greatest General and I supported him?’

She cannot lose any argument, she is on record on every side of every issue!

No matter the age or state of health, for a military man it is always glorious to tilt at windmills, rescue a fair Dulcinea and be a gallant knight in armor in a glorious cause.

So she admires the General who she has also accused of misrepresenting the situation in Iraq…

For once, I believe her.  After all, she’s still married to the man she admires. 

You can’t malign a hero and get away with it…

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I am no fan of Hillary...but being skeptical, and not swallowing either sides propaganda is wise. 

I have a close friend who is a ret. Major who states.., “by the time you reach General, and in order to reach General, you must step over the line that divides soldier from politician and swallow more of what comes down from the top than speak for those that are below”.

Propaganda comes from the left and propaganda comes from the right.... a lie is a lie no matter who tells it.

Thanks for those deep thoughts imagine.  Since you have now obliquely called the good General a liar, would you like to actually provide evidence to support that?

And before you retreat into your “I’m just a skeptic” defense, one can only remain a skeptic when there is a lack of evidence.  General Patraeus gave specific facts and figures to support his report.  Now, either you accept his evidence or you dispute it.  If you dispute it, you are calling Patraeus a liar.  It’s worse if you dispute it without supporting evidence of your own as Hillary has.  That makes you a liar.

a lie is a lie no matter who tells it.

Thanks for stating the obvious.  As far as who is lying I am reminded of this old saw ‘How do you know when a Democrat is lying?  Answer - when their lips are moving...’

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Propaganda comes from the left and propaganda comes from the right.... a lie is a lie no matter who tells it.

The problem is not so much “calling Petraeus a liar is bad because he’s a General.” The problem is implying that someone with Petraeus’ stellar service record is lying without any real proof outside of a political agenda.

When the people fear their government, there is tyranny; when the government fears the people, there is liberty.

-- Thomas Jefferson

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Retired Major, huh?  No less than 20 years in uniform and the farthest he got was Major?

I don’t suppose it has occurred to you that your friend’s opinion just might be colored by the fact that his own ascent up the career ladder was stymied at such a modest level?  I’d guess that of all the military veterans who comment here, we could come up with quite list of Colonels and Generals whose political skills in no way diminished their devotion to the men who they commanded, or those men’s respect for them.

Fact is, David Petraeus, Peter Pace, and Richard Meyers are all men whose intelligence and skills, political skills included, took them to the very highest levels within their respective services, yet whose relationship with the men they commanded was one of mutual respect and admiration.

“Poverty of goods is easily cured; poverty of the mind is irreparable.”

woofie regaled us with a pile of crap about Petraeus over the weekend, and yet he has not returned to further elucidate upon his theme. Imagine that.

Una Salus Victus Nullam Sperare Salutem