Was he reallly that big of a deal?

>>32171529

given the general staff bullpen consists entirely of idiots, this guy slapping lipstick on the pig and running away makes him look like a genius

>And isn't he still on probation?

laws don't apply to connected people

>>32171529

The insurgency was killed, then un-killed by the retard al-maliki.

He had already retired by the time he got to be CIA director, so he didn't break the UCMJ, and his leak got counted a misdemeanor instead of having criminal charges pressed.

We might never know how good Petraeus would be in a pitched battle, but he was extremely good at selling ideas to the civilian leadership and getting those ideas funded and supported.

>>32171529
i always tell my self that the whole scandal was a ploy, designed for him to go somewhere more clandestine.

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>>32171529
He is a complete faggot and who cares. Mattis wouldn't give him a reach around if he fucked his ass.

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That feeling when the drunk girl at the bar keeps grinding on you but the other half of the Brazilian jui jitsu team that went out want to take her to heir gym to smash so your standing there wetter you should man up and politely ask her to go with you and risk death glares and police escorts and her passing embarrassment. Or playing uncle Tom and letting them have their way because the world is just not that big a deal

>>32174022
>mattis

>the pathetic fat POG

>>32174304
I'ma eat some bait. No he wasn't. I'd follow that man into hell.

Patraeus
Betrayed
Us

>>32174329
>no CIB

he's a POG

>>32174345
>Marines
>CIB

Found the E-4

>>32174345
You tried this before. He's a Marine with a Combat Action Ribbon.

>CROOKED HILLARY EMAIL SCANDAL RAH RAH RAH
>Petraeus becomes Secretary of State

. . .

>>32174403
It's a false equivalence. It's expected that some information will get leaked to lovers. He suffered character assassination for political reasons.

Hillary deliberately put classified information on an unsecure, private server. That's more accessible than documents in a man's bedroom.

>>32174403
Pretty sure he got some sort of charge in the end.

Hillary didn't get any charged.

Both broke laws.

When you're so high up spilling classified secrets nets you a fucking misdemeanor.

>>32174022
>no wife, family, or kids

Will he be our first gay Sect. State?

To be fair, unless you are willing to wipe out most of the population of an area where there is a strong insurgency, there cannot be a completely military answer to an insurgency. The military can only create room for a favourable political solution.

If the Iraqi government want to use the hard won lull in fighting to govern in a full pants-on-head-retarded manner, and allow the newly built Iraqi Army to collapse in a fantastically corrupt shambles, that isn't his problem.

>>32174403

fuck him, but what kind of tard equates exposing someone with a TS clearance to classified information, to letting your maid print out TS/SCI held on your unsecured home server?

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>>32174022
>Mattis
>Always bitches to other people about getting shit done fast
>Refuses to dispatch QRF to assist ODA 574 after friendly fire bombing incident because he was afraid of muh goat farmers
>QRF (which was 45 minutes away) Only shows up after a QRF stationed in fucking Khazakstan arrived
Yea nah

>>32177726
Also only took 30 seconds for him to decide to bomb an Iraqi wedding

>>32177970
Better than "wah wah, I don't want anyone that outranked me in the administration" Flynn

>People want a fucking retard like Patreus back in charge
>Patreus is enough of a retard to throw his name in
No. He needs to just fade away.

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>>32174345
You are an idiot.

My personal bet: Trump is trolling the media, having Petraeus running around is causing them to run non-stop stories on why breaking classification rules is bad so as to justify prosecuting Clinton later

>>32178112
He's saving the prosecution for when he fucks up bigtime and needs a distraction.

>>32174022
kind of a meme general t b h

I would say Trump is an idiot to even bring up Petraeus

Then again, I thought he was an idiot who had no idea what he was doing and couldn't win; clearly he has an idea of what he'd doing

At this point, as long as I don't die in a nuclear explosion, I'll just roll with it

Trump just picked Mattis as SecDef

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>>32179338
>Trump just picked Mattis as Secretary of Offense

ftfy