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all these fools are going to do is use you up, kill you and then in the end, if you survive, forget you exist.

That is quite a rant, but first, remember that the guys who got us into a hot shooting war in the ME thinking we were going to clean up the whole place was Bush and his neo-con's. Those were the guys who are the real target of this rant. Petraeus, if you will recall, was the guy who snatched some sort of reasonable outcome out of the jaws of defeat that Cheney and Wolfowitz and that crowd got us into in Iraq.

Petraeus is not coming off as a saint here, but anyone who is looking for saints in effective combat generals (Patton anyone) needs to find and alternative universe. The drive that makes men good at killing things that need killing also make them good at other basic human drives. It is how we are wired up, part of the human condition. Don't want pansies running your combat troops, well conservatives need to look in a mirror and decide what things they want in military leaders and what things they can live with.

Want your version of PC, ok, you can have it, but you are going to get a McClelland and not a Grant.

You have your opinion and I have mine. I was not all that en-clamored with GWB back in the day. But it was him or Gore or Kerry, thus it was Bush who got my vote. But, Bush, even though he says he loved the military, we retirees are now finding out that he signed law that now is going to basically gut our health care. I am going to lose the Tricare Prime that I have had for 21 years. I am going to be stuck with Tricare Standard, where I have to pa 25% more on every DR appointment, surgery, etc. Bush started all that. Obama is just adding on to it. We retired military have been slapped time and time again by the Pentagon, who rather cut all retiree benefits out entirely, just too buy the latest James Bond gadget. If that is not use you up and spit you out, what is? Like I said, you live in your land, I am living in what is happening to me and my retiree friends. Many who have illnesses and injuries that insurance will not pick up under some new add on plan. They are stuck with the costs. 70+ year olds who have no other options.