oped: I'm sorry General I may have just been a Buck Sgt E-5 in the US Army 1964-1968 Air/Armored Cav but Sir if this is true you surely are no General Westmoreland,Eisenhower,Patton or MacArthur you Sir are a embarrassment to all who served...Hillary Clinton as the Secretary of State allowed four people to die in Benghazi then tried like hell to cover it up...my question to you Sir: What does Hillary Clinton have on you to Blackmail you into submission?
Hillary Clinton: "What difference at this point does it make"
Hillary ~David it makes one hell of a lot of difference...Two Former Enlisted Navy Seals ignored orders to stand down and went on the offensive to rescue those in dire need...they gave their lives in their effort and their reward was unnecessary death by the failure of Barry Obama ,Hillary Clinton,General Patraeus and a host of others within the Obama administration to send assistance to two Navy Seals screaming for help/backup in heated combat and being overrun by alQaida trained terrorists !
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Did Petraeus Just Endorse Hillary Clinton?
By Jonathan Karl
Among Republicans, there is no more popular general than David Petraeus, the commander credited for salvaging the Iraq war and the architect of the counter-insurgency strategy pursued by President Bush. Petraeus has always shied away from politics, but in a new book he is quoted lavishing so much praise on Hillary Clinton, he seems to be endorsing her as a candidate for President.
“She’d make a tremendous president,” Petraeus says in the new book “HRC” by Jonathan Allen and Aimee Parnes.
And for Petraeus, Exhibit A in why she would be a tremendous president is the very thing for which Republicans most aggressively attack Clinton: her performance as Secretary of State when the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya, was attacked.
“Like a lot of great leaders, her most impressive qualities were most visible during tough times,” Petraeus tells Allen and Parnes. “In the wake of the Benghazi attacks, for example, she was extraordinarily resolute, determined, and controlled.”
Petraeus was director of the Central Intelligence Agency at the time of the attacks, which killed four Americans, including two who worked for the CIA and the U.S. ambassador to Libya, Chris Stevens.
The book does not specify what, if anything, Petraeus had to say about the failure of the State Department to respond to repeated requests for improved security in Benghazi in the weeks and months before the attacks.
Petraeus’s glowing assessment is especially interesting given his uneasy history with Hillary Clinton. She essentially accused Petraeus of lying about progress in Iraq when he was President Bush’s commander there and she was a senator preparing to run for president.
During a hearing of the Senate Armed Services Committee in September 2007, Petraeus testified that the surge of additional troops into Iraq and led to a dramatic decrease in violence. Then-Senator Clinton said Petraeus’s assessment required “a willful suspension of disbelief.”
Clinton’s courtship of her erstwhile foe began shortly after President-elect Obama nominated her as Secretary of State in 2008. She invited Petraeus, then the military’s top commander for the Middle East, to her home in Washington, D.C., to share a bottle of wine and talk about the Middle East.
Allen and Parnes write that the session went so well, she invited him back for another meeting the following night, and another bottle of wine.
After Petraeus was forced to resign as CIA Director over an extramarital affair, Clinton sent him a note expressing sympathy and harkening back to her struggles on the other side of an adultery scandal.
“I have a little experience,” she wrote.
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Disgraced ex-CIA director David Petraeus says Hillary Clinton would make a 'tremendous' President
- Says in wake of Benghazi she was 'extraordinarily resolute, determined, and controlled'
- Benghazi attacks killed four Americans as well as U.S. ambassador to Libya Chris Stevens
- Clinton reportedly became close with Petraeus after inviting him over for wine to discuss the Middle East in 2008
- After Petraeus resigned from the CIA over an extramarital affair, Clinton reportedly sent a note of sympathy saying 'I have a little experience'
By Zoe Szathmary
[ The pair reportedly became allies after discussing the Middle East over a bottle of wine in December 2008]
Former CIA director and army general David Petraeus is seemingly endorsing Hillary Clinton for president, according to a new book.
'She’d make a tremendous President,' Petraeus reportedly says in the new book 'HRC: State Secrets and the Rebirth of Hillary Clinton,' written by Jonathan Allen and Amie Parnes.
'Like a lot of great leaders, her most impressive qualities were most visible during tough times,' he says in the book, according to The New York Daily News. 'In the wake of the Benghazi attacks, for example, she was extraordinarily resolute, determined, and controlled.'
Petraeus was CIA director during the Benghazi attacks, which killed four Americans, including two who worked for the CIA, as well as Chris Stevens, the U.S. ambassador to Libya, ABC News reports.
The book will be on sale Tuesday, and claims that Petraeus and Clinton became friends while she served as Secretary of State.
Clinton and Petraeus, the paper adds, soon became allies over foreign relations in the Middle East. Petraeus reportedly even lent Clinton his plane when hers broke down in Saudi Arabi.
Clinton and Petraeus reportedly also became close when discussing personal issues, the paper adds. After Petraeus resigned as CIA director in the wake of his extramarital affair with biographer Paula Broadwell, Clinton is believed to have sent him a note of sympathy referring to her own husband's reported infidelities, writing 'I have a little experience.'
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