Scandal probe ensnares commander of U.S., NATO troops in Afghanistan

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34. That's what I've been saying...

along with the fact that i think that maybe this is just a way of "cleaning house" that also puts the chaff in a position where they aren't likely to hold positions of obstruction, I mean, power afterward. These guys were helping things get ugly in the theater and I think that once they were found out, all this is just a fitting way to whack them in the behind on their way out the door. I think the sex part would have been completely overlooked if they hadn't been trying to extend the US presence in the region while the prez has been trying to end the fiasco. Recall that Petraeus was driving and he had a major battle with Obama over the concept of how this war machine was going to wind down.

And then there are those clandestine ties to some bad actors that few seem to be aware of:

http://original.antiwar.com/justin/2012/11/11/a-covert-affair-petraeus-caught-in-the-honeypot/

I don't totally agree with everything in this write up but I think it has a lot of meat on the bone, so to speak, that needs to be understood. Doesn't make everything clearer but it shows how convoluted it all is, far more than most of us had guessed up to now.