Chakolate wrote:
> FurPaw <furrealpawdog@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in
> news:SZCdnRIn66F5CGnbnZ2dnUVZ_judnZ2d@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>> Chakolate wrote:
>>
>>> I don't really blame Petreas - after all, he's a military guy
>>> following orders. Petreas is just a handy target, distracting us
>>> from the real problem.
>>>
>>> I know where the real blame lies.
>> Yeah... but Petreas accepted the job, and Congress (well, some of
>> them) are looking for a complete honest report, and he isn't
>> providing one. (OK, so these congressfolk are naive.)
>
> I don't think anybody expected Petreas to say anything except what he
> did. The BAd has cherry-picked (if not manufactured) its data right
> from the beginning, and no one thought it would stop now.
>
> I don't say Petreas is particularly blameless, I just don't think he's
> much more than a scapegoat.
And he is, after all, a part of the BAd. The spotlight of blame
focuses on one or a few at a time. I don't think he is less
deserving of blame than anyone else who has jumped on the BAd
bandwagon. I don't know if it's 'fair' or not, but I don't feel
sorry for anyone in the BAd who becomes a target. They each made
a choice. He could have turned down the Iraq job, remained one
more anonymous general, and the spotlight would have passed over
him.
FurPaw
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a theft from those who hunger and are not fed,
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