David "Peter Principle" Petraeus' Lack of Judgment
"This was included in a previous post I had written, 'Behind this furious backpedaling is a major Bush administration miscalculation about Muqtada and his Mahdi Army, which the administration believed was no longer capable of a coordinated military operation. It is now apparent that Muqtada and the Mahdi Army were holding back because they were in the process of retraining and reorganization, not because Muqtada had given up the military option or had lost control of the Mahdi Army.'
"Petraeus, meanwhile, was convinced that the ability of the Mahdi Army to resist had been reduced by US military actions as well as by its presumed internal disorganization. His spokesman, Rear Admiral Gregory Smith, declared in early November, "As we've gone after that training skill levels amongst the enemy, we've degraded their capability...
"Petraeus has already established a record of failure as a senior commander in Iraq.
"A few years ago, Petraeus failed to turn Iraq's so called new army into a fighting force and was either incompetent or complicit in also failing to note that the Iraq procurement budget was being embezzled to the tune of $1.2 billion resulting in obsolete or inferior weapons for the Iraq army he was in charge of training."
"Petraeus has been beating the Bushite drums for a confrontation with Iran. However, his latest planned charlatan dog and pony show to shore up his tenuous "proof" about Iranian involvement in Iraq went awry."
But the endorsement - which has spurred a demand by a watchdog group for Petraeus' dismissal and court martial on the grounds of establishing a religious requirement on troops - was a personal view never intended for publication, the book's author now says.
"In the process of securing comments for recommending the book I believe there was a basic misunderstanding on my part that the comments were publishable, McCoy said in an Aug. 19 email to Military.com. "This was my mistake."
"Mikey Weinstein, the head of the Military Religious Freedom Foundation, says that it "strains credulity" that Petraeus didn't know his private written endorsement of the book had been public since last year. But Petraeus' spokesman Col. Steven Boylan says Petraeus was unaware because he has been in Iraq since February 2007."
An endorsement by Petraeus of a spiritual handbook by a military chaplain; an endorsement that wasn't meant to be published. Give me a break! Then why get the endorsement? It's usually to add to the publishing and PR blurbs. An chaplain writes a spiritual handbook for the military that gets a written endorsement from General David Petraeus and he and Petraeus say it was not for publication. That's a joke.
Another example of the attempted Christianization of the military trying to drive a hole throught the wall of separation of church and state. Petraeus exercises pretty poor judgment as a general.
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