[V8] A fish stinks....

[Scott Justusson]

Roger
When I see these things, I know the rest of the world laughs at us, especially the French.  A mistress while in office wouldn't even make the newspapers.  You take your 'wife' to functions, and your mistress is who you sleep with...  The larger scandals don't involve lust and infidelity, they are much more basic violations of trust and integrity....  And go back through every branch of military and all branches of government.  Examples are easy to find:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_federal_political_scandals_in_the_United_States

And, those are just the one's we know about.  I think the French have it right, there's nothing to see here, and Patraeus has nothing on many Commanders in Chief going back a long time.   Even JFK managed to handle Bay of Pigs at the very time he was known to partake in extramarital indiscretions.

I can't draw the connections you do to this 'ideal' standard of conduct, because lust goes back in World history so far, it makes the very thought of iimpeccable integrity, have no real value, only a symbolic idealism to a very well documented reality. 

Did his allowing her 'unfettered access'  (pun intended) violate National Security interests?  I doubt it did anymore than having a large number of Military Officers in the room itself.

My .02

Scott J
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-----Original Message-----
From: Roger M. Woodbury <rmwoodbury at fairpoint.net>
To: cobram <cobram at juno.com>
Cc: V8 <V8 at audifans.com>
Sent: Mon, Nov 12, 2012 8:27 pm
Subject: Re: [V8] A fish stinks....


Oh, quite to the contrary. It is ALL about nookie.  It is a violation of the 
Universal Code of Military Justice for a service member to engage in conduct 
that is detrimental to the welfare of the service.  The military services 
uniformly stress the sanctity of marriage (yeah, I know that isn’t worth much in 
our culture today).  A General Officer is supposed to exemplify the highest 
standards of the best behavior and since Patraeus abandoned ANY sort of standard 
of conduct that preserves the overall concept of honor, from a military culture 
standard, he is right at the leading edge of the nose of the fish.

For that matter, the slut who opened her legs for him is also a commissioned 
officer (Reserve).  While The General is retired and probably committed his 
indiscretion after leaving the service, SHE didn’t.  I wonder if she might 
receive punishment under the UCMJ.  I hope so, but probably it won’t happen.

I feel for the Mrs Patraeus who has been a loyal military wife for thirty-seven 
years.  She deserved better and I hope she extracts a very high price, however 
the revenge loaf is sliced.  

Then there is the son who is a junior officer in the US Army.  It will be 
unlikely that he will enjoy a career of long duration now.  

As far as Benghazi is concerned, there probably are a whole lot of hands that 
need to be slapped over that, but Patraeus’ may not have a whole lot to do about 
it.  Rather the error was appointing an ex-military officer with little real 
background in the intelligence business to enter that snake pit.  If someone 
really needs hanging over Benghazi, she probably sits in an the SEcretary of 
State’s office.  T hose were “State’s” people, after all.

Oh, there are a whole lot of things to rant and rave about.  For my part, I wait 
for the soap opera to fade away.

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