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General Petraeus, contemplating a career move: Wars are out, assassinations are in!

Posted on by Alan Vanneman

Establishment dick National icon Bob Woodward reports on a taped conversation that Fox News contributor Kathleen McFarland had with Gen. David Petraeus back when El Davo was still running things in Afghanistan, a tape that, mysteriously, did not surface until after General Dave resigned in disgrace from his position as head of the CIA. Kathleen was a gal on a mission, sent by Fox News head Roger Ailes to tell the general that if President Obama didn’t offer to appoint him as chair of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, he ought to tell Obama to take his CIA directorship and shove it, but Petraeus demurred.

At the meeting, some 18 months ago, Petraeus told McFarland that he thought the CIA was “a treasure. . . . I think that organization is full of just heroes. Unsung heroes.” He went on to say, “We’re going to be retrenching militarily.” In contrast, the CIA and the intelligence agencies, “I think, are going to be a growth industry,” Petraeus said.

How right you were, general! Boots are out, drones are in! If only you knew as much about dames as you do about killing!

Afterwords
Fatass Ailes claims that the offer McFarland made to Petraeus, that if he ran for president Ailes might head up his campaign, was “more of a joke, a wiseass way I have.” Uh-huh. Also, McFarland was a nobody, paid less than $75,000 a year. You’re nothing but class, fat guy.

Petraeus naturally bitches about press coverage of the glorious wars in Iraq and Afghanistan for failing to depict them as sufficiently glorious. Enjoy your retirement, general. I certainly will.

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