Lying Gen. Petraeus Puts Politics Ahead of Troops Says The American Conservative

General David Petraeus has been known for some time as the political pawn of the Bush administration; willingly sacrificing American troops in a vain attempt to dress up the Iraqi "surge" as some new formula that is both morally and militarily a change from the same old lies.

MoveOn was right about the man, Petraeus did betray us.

The American Conservative has a critical piece out on Petraeus by Andrew J. Bacevich, professor of history and international relations at Boston University.

It's title fits the troop-betraying Patraeus well, Sycophant Savior.

Reads Bacevich:

There is only one plausible explanation for Petraeus’s terminating a surge that has (he says) enabled coalition forces, however tentatively, to gain the upper hand. That explanation is politics—of the wrong kind. Given the current situation as Petraeus describes it, an incremental reduction in U.S. troop strength makes sense only in one regard: it serves to placate each of the various Washington constituencies that Petraeus has a political interest in pleasing.

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