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Bush’s man that the Demo-rats literally tore to pieces. I believe they referred to him as General “Be Tray Us”. They called him a traitor. Is this Obama’s way of punishing 2 very high-ranking military officers? And this is a freaking demotion!! General Petraeus has served this country for over 35 years with a great deal of honor and integrity (things that no one in Obama’s growing administration appear to have). Don’t take my word for it, read just one of many articles about this name calling and a $65K ad that moveon.org used to attack Gen Petraeus.

I served in the Air Force and unfortunately, it is indeed true that you extremely limited free speech rights. You take an oath to obey orders from the officers appointed over you, as well as the President. Yes, Gen McChrystal screwed up and the expected outcome has occurred. Like it or not, and I know many military members that don’t like it, a military member can NOT criticize the President of the United States (well they can’t be caught doing it or have a full fledged article quoting them criticizing the President). This creates dissents, detracts morale, and has the potential to cripple our chain of command. Now that’s the military take on it. Personally, in this case I can’t take this too seriously simply because Obama hasn’t earned the respect of millions of Americans, let alone our military personnel as evidenced by numerous military personnel refusing to deploy – even though they were ordered to do so by the President…but this is a whole different story in and of itself.

Let’s get back to the subject at hand. How on God’s green earth can Joe Biden look General Petraeus in the face? The things he and other liberals said of him before he gave his report on the success of the troop surge in Iraq were so blatantly disrespectful. The General's ability to take this kind of abuse and still serve this country stands as a testament to the honor this man has for America.

Without question McChrystal was wrong to publicly speak out about his lack of confidence in Obama and the current administration. Aside from the obvious fact that McChrystal is blatantly right, it was poor headwork to trust an embedded reporter….from Rolling Stone no less (what was he thinking!) to write a puff-up article versus start an international media feeding frenzy. As for Eikenberry and Holbrooke, they are State Department dinosaurs with integrity to match the unbridled duplicity in the Obama administration. Long careers as bureaucrats qualify their opinions as essentially unimportant and worthless. The more serious side of this issue is that the civilian leadership running this war has again proven their incompetence. It is inevitable that there will be more U.S. casualties as a result of Obama’s thin-skinned decision. It is a pathetic attempt to exhibit leadership but the world is still laughing at him. Perhaps if Obama had actually spent more time with Gen McChrystal than Andy Stern, he would not be in this dilemma. In the end, Gen McChrystal will be praised for his leadership and Obama will be measured by his failure in Afghanistan, among so many others.. (Darn, there goes the 50’ statue on the mall but maybe NBC will build one for him in Rockefeller Plaza.)