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Moveon.org Was Right: Gen. Petraeus Really Did Betray Us
In 2007, the anti-war group MoveOn.org published a full-page ad in The New York Times accusing General David H. Petraeus of “cooking the books for the White House” as to the success of the so-called “surge” at the height of the Iraq War. As an irresistible play upon his unusual name, the ad also labeled him “General Betray Us”. Moveon’s ad was a rare and direct response to Petraeus’ Report to Congress on the Situation in Iraq.
President Bush and the Republicans were practically falling over themselves extolling the virtues of the surge. The four-starred general Petraeus (who was in charge of “boots on the ground” and all things Iraq) was ceremoniously assigned the role of point man to explain to Congress and the world that all was right and good despite what appeared to most of us to be a never-ending debacle, defeat and disaster in the deserts and cities of that beleaguered nation-state.
Thus, to no one’s surprise, Republicans, the Tea Party, conservatives and the right wing generally underwent a public conniption fit over Moveon ‘s move against the good, faithful, loyal, charitable, honest and true General Petraeus.
And so it seems now that Moveon has been totally vindicated with yesterday’s news that the good general and ex-CIA Director will plead guilty to providing his mistress-cum-biographer…
