One more note on the ex-general controversy.
I can remember getting to my local bar one night a while back when a couple of patrons greeted me with impassioned diatribes on how sleazy Moveon.org was to play word games General Petraeus' name, turning it into BetrayUs. Can't criticize those generals after all they have done for the country, right.
Well, of course like all right wing rants there was precious little substance or consistency in their attacks (remember how whenever an ex-general came out against the Bush crime family and the illegal war in Iraq they were immediately assailed by the government and the RW blogonuts as liars or being bitter or some other insult which avoided any discussion of the actual claims raised).
Now it comes out that a multitude of ex-generals were being paid for advocating war. Further as noted in the video below by a CNN journalist, many had shares in companies getting contracts during the war. This is obviously quite scandalous. (though of course the liberal media has almost entirely ignored the controversy...what a shock).
Advocating a war because you are told to do so by the government and moveever, because this war will most probably enrich you greatly is pretty much the height of unethical behaviour by an ex-general. And yeah, if I were American I wouldn't hesitate to call these people traitors (neither would anyone who has lost a loved one in Iraq either, I'm guessing.)
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