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Marr

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4. That's not how I saw it at all.

Reply to Tx4obama (Original post)

Mon May 6, 2013, 05:46 PM

May 2013

Granted, a sane mind would have uttered those sentences with incredulity. But I don't think they were being sane-- they were just pumping up their silly narrative with more ominous suggestions.

Petraeus was thrown under the bus not so long ago for that affair, so I expect his name was invoked simply to suggest that he was being blackmailed into a whitewash.

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