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JackRiddler

(24,979 posts) Tue Nov 13, 2012, 10:12 PM Nov 2012

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Prediction of Petraeus's fate, a year and a half ago. [View all]

Last edited Wed Nov 14, 2012, 11:46 AM - Edit history (2)

On May 2nd, 2011, after a busy week in which Obama reshuffled his cabinet (Gates out, Panetta to Pentagon), published his birth certificate and humiliated Donald Trump, and then announced the killing of Bin Ladin, I wrote:

Petraeus -- neutralized, withdrawn from his Afghanistan flag-waving photo-ops and sent into the bowels of the CIA, an agency with a proven history of stimying and dispensing with directors considered hostile to it.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=439x1011589

Make of it what you will. For the rationale of my thinking, then and now: see Post 7, below.

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Prediction of Petraeus's fate, a year and a half ago. [View all] JackRiddler Nov 2012 OP

But what on earth does that have to do with him having an affair? teddy51 Nov 2012 #1

There's always a way to bring someone down... (Post #7) JackRiddler Nov 2012 #7

was he considered 'hostile' to the cia when he was director? BlueMan Votes Nov 2012 #2

Yes of course. JackRiddler Nov 2012 #8

Kind of sick of these 'I told you so' threads! - n/t fleur-de-lisa Nov 2012 #3

What exactly are we being told? GiaGiovanni Nov 2012 #4

See post 7, above, for my guess. JackRiddler Nov 2012 #10

yeah there have been a lot of them lately WI_DEM Nov 2012 #11

If "stimying" means "causing him to bone his biographer" JBoy Nov 2012 #5

Oh so interesting. underthematrix Nov 2012 #6

Nice try but I don't think you quite predicted it. WI_DEM Nov 2012 #9

Doesn't matter, but see Post 7... JackRiddler Nov 2012 #12

bump - pls. see Post #7 JackRiddler Nov 2012 #13

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