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bemildred

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Mon Nov 12, 2012, 04:36 PM
Nov 2012

12 of 19 people found the following review helpful
1.0 out of 5 stars Waste of Time, November 12, 2012
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This review is from: All In: The Education of General David Petraeus (Hardcover)
Other than the retrospectively ironic title (though I hear the working title was the even more fitting "balls deep&quot this is a complete waste. Ms. Broadwell is a sub-par writer who got access to a powerful figure by being a "deployment 9". (For the civilians reading this...a deployment 9 is a woman who normally you'd have nothing to do with, but being out in the desert for months on end, just about anything starts to look good giving them an increased rating to their perceived attractiveness. Generally "deployment 9s" are more preoccupied with the attention they get from sex starved comrades than they are with the actual mission, earning them the ridicule of their male peers and the scorn of the women who are actually there to support the fight AT the desk, not under it.)

Very disappointed in the General. Absolutely disgusted by the author.

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Too funny Patiod Nov 2012 #1
omg.. txdemsftw Nov 2012 #6
Sample: bemildred Nov 2012 #2
This from a one-star review Anthony McCarthy Nov 2012 #3
reader reviews Angry Dragon Nov 2012 #4
Needs a new title... lyingsackofmitt Nov 2012 #5
Tits up is more like it nt flamingdem Nov 2012 #8
the most poignant riverwalker Nov 2012 #7
LOL! Octafish Nov 2012 #9
Give new meaning to "embedded with" dixiegrrrrl Nov 2012 #10
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