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Originally Posted by GenuineRisk
Having lived through an eight-year administration that lied us into a war and then lied about how it was going so as not to hurt their own reelection prospects, I can say this is not anywhere on the same level.
In fact, Petraeus himself wrote an op-ed piece in 2004, totally lying about what was going on in Iraq, in order to bolster Bush's reelection prospects in an election that was much closer than the one we just had.
But, as this article points out, Petraeus' first blow job came from the media:
http://www.buzzfeed.com/mhastings/th...david-petraeus |
So it is ok because Bush did it?
When people start being ok with their guys doing something wrong because the other guys did something wrong where are we headed? Is it a crime or the worst thing that this administration has done? Not by a longshot. But they knew, they lied about it and there are very few non scripted acts in Washington.