Patraeus Disgusts Me

[kpete]

To the shock of President Hamid Karzai’s aides, Gen. David H. Petraeus suggested Sunday at the presidential palace that Afghans caught up in a coalition attack in northeastern Afghanistan might have burned their own children to exaggerate claims of civilian casualties, according to two participants at the meeting.

Oh well. His spokesman, Rear Admiral Greg Smith, later clarified that what Petraeus really meant to say was that he thought most Afghan parents burn their own children as a means of enforcing discipline.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/02/21/AR2011022103256.html
http://www.registan.net/index.php/2011/03/02/strangely-he-didnt-mention-parents-intentionally-maiming-their-children-this-time/

[fascisthunter]

1. to be this ignorant, no wonder he was chosen for the job

[L0oniX]

2. What a POS. Typical military psych is to demonize the other and in this case...

to make them out to be people who don't care about their own children. I hate the military.

That worst outcrop of herd life, the military system, which I abhor . . . This plague-spot of civilization ought to be abolished with all possible speed. Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism–how passionately I hate them! – Albert Einstein

[SpiralHawk]

3. "They burned their own children." - Petraus (R - Liar)

What a stinking crock O' RepubliCrap.

Petraus is a compleat Republicon A-hole liar liar liar.

No honor. Whatsoever.

[still_one]

4. During the Viet Nam War Westmoreland made a similar asinine statements. One that I will never

forget is his assessment that "The Oriental doesn't put the same high price on life as does a Westerner...We value life and human dignity. They don't care about life and human dignity."

I recommend the documentary "Hearts and Minds"