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June 5, 2013 at 11:19 am
Paula Broadwell got to write a book about David P and earned lots of phony praise before it all fell down. Jill didn’t. I’d kinda be angry too. She rocks the pink and yellow dresses though. She’s perfect for reality tv, can’t understand why it hasn’t happened. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zUNDh1MD33M
June 5, 2013 at 2:39 pm
I just looked back and saw that it was Kelley who got the FBI involved, which eventually led to the blowup.
It is difficult to have sympathy for anyone involved in that mess.
June 5, 2013 at 4:02 pm
I don’t. The culture dictates that money could be saved and harmony achieved by payin’ her off in some way. I remember Cryptome had some photos of Paula Broadwell at a hoity-toity national security conference at a swell place for all the swells, taken before the news broke, one where it was made obvious by positioning that she was an oh so special person in the pantheon. And then you read excerpts of her book and it’s just a big non-literary fellation of David P. and it all makes sense. I was just thinking Petraeus went from commander of the 101st Airborne in Iraqi Freedom, to being leader of the METEMP team with Judy Miller embedded that was supposedly about to always find WMDs. Which should have been the end of him but things got desperate and he got sent back to Iraq to do the “surge” and everyone convinced themselves that worked and then he was a big star. There wasn’t going to be no movie like “Patton” or “MacArthur” called “Petraeus,” but there might be some kind of tv movie some day. He did make it into a computer game.
June 5, 2013 at 4:07 pm
This is worth a laugh from Peter Bergen at CNN: “Historians will likely judge David Petraeus to be the most effective American military commander since Eisenhower.” I bet not. I think they’ll say that, circumstantially, he did just OK.
June 5, 2013 at 9:25 pm
Reminds me of an old Rocky and Bullwinkle line.
“In the Pentagon, there was General Consternation. And his entire staff.”
Petraeus’s trick was to institute payola as a weapon. The problem is that the ola stopped with the pay.
There are no victors in an unjust war.