Lt. Col. Ralph Peters On Petraeus: "Timing Is Just Too Perfect" (Video)

Real Clear Politics ^ | 11/9/12 | Lt. Col. Ralph Peters

[Brandonmark]

LT. COL. RALPH PETERS: The timing is just too perfect for the Obama administration. Just as the administration claimed it was purely coincidence that our Benghazi consulate was attacked on the anniversary of September 11th. Now it’s purely coincidence that this affair -- extra-marital affair -- surfaces right after the election, not before, but right after, but before the intelligence chiefs go to Capitol Hill to get grilled. As an old intelligence analyst, Neil, the way I read this -- I could be totally wrong, this is my interpretation -- is that the administration was unhappy with Petraeus not playing ball 100% on their party-line story. I think it's getting cold feet about testifying under oath on their party-line story. And I suspect that these tough Chicago guys knew about this affair for a while, held it in their back pocket until they needed to play the card.

[TexasTransplant]

He is a relatively young Man (younger than me anyway) with a ton of power and influence ... guys like him don’t pick up a cane pole and take Opie to the pond.

Personally I don’t think Democrat or Republican means a damned thing to him... he has his own mission, which makes him dangerous to Obama

See my post 68

TT

[Bon mots]

But now he is FREE to TELL ALL, he has nothing more to lose. He can regain some semblance of respectability and not let the 4 Americans to have died in VAIN, he can do that by testifying of what he knows.

I hope he will do so.

He just has to stay away from Ft. marcy Park.

[WildHighlander57]

See this post:

“she met him in 2006.

http://www.c-spanvideo.org/program/304301-1

58 posted on Fri Nov 09 2012 22:39:41 GMT-0600 (CST) by TornadoAlley3 (Obama is everything Oklahoma is not.)”

Not sure when it started, but June/July 2011 is when he went from military to cia.

So its possible about losing pension.

[St_Thomas_Aquinas]

Patraeus is the consummate military General.

I'll take your word for it. It's just hard to believe that anyone other than a politician could rise to the top in today's PC military.

And why would a Marxist like Obama want someone heading the CIA who is a patriot?

[surrey]

If he were a real patriot he would have resigned before the election and let the chips fall where they may.

[Alberta's Child]

Blackmail cards held back and used at the right moment are an Axlerod trademark.

Yes -- but what exactly is "the right moment" in this case.

I thought of an even more bizarre possibility, too ... a scenario in which this affair was being held over Petraeus' head to keep him quiet in the event Obama lost. That would explain the timing of his resignation just a few days after the election -- since Obama's victory threw a monkey wrench into the plan.

[Diogenesis]

[Alberta's Child]

I’m not a lawyer, but since Petraeus no longer has any official position in the U.S. government I don’t think anyone can do anything to keep him from testifying.

[BwanaNdege]

“Maybe she set him up. What is her political persuasion?”

Probably related to Jessica Hahn?

The man in each case is responsible for his lack of self control and for breaking his vows to his wife.

However, both were probably set ups.

[Toespi]

Forgot all about that, there has been so much.

[presently no screen name]

Whatever Obama touches he destroys. He is evil. They are/were under his spell. Col Lakin knew it and tried to warn but no one listened. The commie destroyed his career, also. The protectors of USA, he destroys. Reason for NRE. It was a real strange election, he destroyed our election process, also. Satan has come to kill/rob/destroy.

[presently no screen name]

If he had any integrity Obama wouldn't have appointed him in the first place

He's just hell bent on destroying what is good. What a career this man had. His comrades should lift him up and make a big deal about it and shove it in the face of the media and barry that they DID NOT destroy his reputation with the public.

[presently no screen name]

Don’t say that. Are you saying ‘it’s always someone’s else fault’ obama has any honor? ANYTHING good about him? The man is pure evil, he destroys. Think how he bowed to our enemies. Think how he said ‘stand down’ and watched Americans be slaughtered. Only he had the power to stop it.

[presently no screen name]

He wasn’t concerned about his career? Look who is leading this country - drug smoking bathhouse barry who never did a flippen thing for the USA and now hell bent on destroying it and any good American.

[arasina]

The man in each case is responsible for his lack of self control and for breaking his vows to his wife.

[trebb]

He could lose his pension if he tells.

He could lose a lot more if they think he might tell...

[Leep]

There have been way to many coincidences thats for sure.

[Pining_4_TX]

Well, I don’t understand why Petreaus tried that approach, because, as you say, even if we had ridden in on unicorns, the result would have been the same. The initial objective was to get Bin Laden, but then the idiot policy wonks and politicians got the bright idea that we were going to turn Afghanistan into a modern democracy.

It is the gambling and experimenting with our soldiers’ lives on a fool’s errand that has me enraged. Petraeus and other generals who were more interested in their careers and were quite happy to sacrifice anyone to further them. As I said, Petraeus is a self-promoting tool.

[Travis McGee]

It’s quite Byzantine. I hope the sex angle now causes the Obama-loving MSM to examine Benghazi just a bit.

[Travis McGee]

Can the DAIG bring charges against Pet that would prevent him from being able to testify with a case ongoing?

Great question, I don't know, that would take a few JAG officers I suppose.