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Petraeus Wore False Medal Before Congress

By dlaw
Sun Sep 23, 2007 at 12:52:12 AM PST
Section: Diary Topic: Alternative and Community Media

This morning on Fox, Petraeus starts his offensive here in America. The party that told us John Kerry wasn't quite heroic enough for his Silver Star And Bronze Star for Valor, will now tell us that Bronze Stars for Valor are "no big deal" and it's okay Petraeus wears one just to be like cool like the other guys. Petraeus has never discharged his weapon against enemy forces, never rescued anyone physically in combat and faced what little flying metal he did face surrounded by soldiers and journalists, and only because he failed to direct his troops properly.

Kerry didn't pick enough metal out of his arm.

Petraeus never even got any in his flak jacket.

The officer corps in Iraq have created a quiet scandal in their awarding of medals - inconsistently and far too often to themselves. David Petraeus is the most egregious example. Entering combat in 2003 for the first time as a 54-year-old Major General, he received a hero's combat medal. (Note young Marine Cpl. James Wright's saluting hand - other one's gone, too.). Petraeus biographies have him under fire in Najaf. No serious incident other than the 30 March mortar shell is described by either V Corps embed Komarow (now a senior editor at AP) nor Rick Atkinson, Pulitzer-prize embed with the 101st Airborne and Petraeus's constant companion. Disturbingly, the Army describes the incident quite differently. Even if conceivably true, this patently silly propaganda story would not rise to the risking of blood and bone associated with the Bronze Star for Valor. Scandal and propaganda having denied credibility, reason and decency insist that medal the Petraeus wore a before Congress was a cynical, fraudulent misrepresentation of combat valor for the sake of ambition and political convenience.

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