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Et Tu, Petraeus?
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exNavyOffRec
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At least we have pic of the girl that ended up bringing him down, how bad does the girl of the sub commander have to look like to not have her picture all over the place.
Anyone seen a picture of his wife? Manatee comes to mind.
She ain't a supermodel but that is a bit harsh and she is nowhere near MB's ex. After almost 40 years she deserves better than what she is having to endure now.
jjryan07
Iron Eagle
Well that answers that question. That is really disappointing. First Lance, now David Petraeus. My heroes arr crashing and burning one by one. If Usain Bolt is on 'roids I quit.
Here's the thing though...
Does Lance's drug use make his achievements on a bicycle any less superhuman and remarkable? Of course not. All you need to understand to know that is that when they stripped his Tour wins, they couldn't award them to anyone else, because all the runners-up were also convicted dopers. That he doped doesn't make his achievements any less remarkable, it just means that he had more in common with the rest of the pack than we thought.
Same for General (Ret) Petraeus. He no doubt save hundreds, if not thousands of lives in Iraq and Afghanistan. He was an effective combat leader in one of the most difficult combat situations imaginable; nation building in the midst of a violent insurgency in two countries that weren't thrilled with our presence. Further, his nearly 40 year career is punctuated with absolute bad-assery. He was both a soldier's soldier and a thinking man's thinker. That he sometimes let the little head tell the big one what to do just makes him more like the rest of us, and dare I say it, human.
When our heroes fall from "grace", at least half of the letdown is our own unrealistic expectations about what they are. I'm not condoning what he did, but neither can I vilify him or forget his contributions to our country and our profession because of it.
MasterBates
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Certainly even the ogre can Google Holly Petraeus.
exNavyOffRec
Well-Known Member
Here you all go
http://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www.midlandsbiz.com/public/img/news/th/1238639222.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.midlandsbiz.com/news/headlines/280/&h=211&w=185&sz=10&tbnid=dw9jzvgfGQb02M:&tbnh=90&tbnw=79&prev=/search?q=Holly+Petraeus&tbm=isch&tbo=u&zoom=1&q=Holly Petraeus&usg=__AhFYpRAIdPkfVv74OQr9fXyYtT4=&docid=8p32H4r-neUSmM&hl=en&sa=X&ei=MtydUJuHC8fLigLQk4F4&ved=0CFUQ9QEwCA&dur=69
I will say that looks are not an indicator of what a person is like to live with, the best looking person in the world could be the worst to live with and the worst looking could be the best to live with, no one really knows what goes on in a relationship behind closed doors.
MasterBates
Well-Known Member
I'm calling Manatee in the General's favor.
Should be a valid pass out of everything other than her chunk of his DOD retirement (which I disagree with, but it is a feel good BS law)
Should be a valid pass out of everything other than her chunk of his DOD retirement (which I disagree with, but it is a feel good BS law)
Can't necessarily say I am surprised. He's in Afghanistan, running a war, and some fairly good looking and fit chick is completely interested in everything he does. Probably like shooting fish in a barrel for both of them.