and Duke University Professor of Political Science (and a former White House Staffer) Peter D. Feaver is all indignant about what he call's Moveon's "McCarthy Moment".
This particular passage though, had me in stitches:
It is a deliberate attack on the senior Army commander, in a major daily newspaper, with the intention of destroying as much of his credibility as possible so that his military advice could be more easily rejected by antiwar members of Congress.
Oh gee...a Senior Army Commander is under political attack...gosh that is a shame. I have to ask though, where was Prof. Feaver's righteous indignation when the so called Swift Boat Veterans questioned Senator John Kerry's integrity & patriotism?
Did the good Professor ever denounce those god-damned little band-aids emblazoned with the Purple Heart that were gleefully passed out at the 2004 GOP Convention?
Where was the outrage then professor?
If Petraeus is getting roasted over an open fire today it's because George Bush and Dick Cheney relentlessly politicized the occupation of Iraq and played a demagogue's game on terrorism in campaign 2004. If in turn Moveon.org feels a need to play hardball well...c'est le guerre, someone should have called the President to account for his many many "McCarthy Moments" a long damn time ago.
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