MoveOn sends ‘General Betray-us’ down the memory hole

[RandySF]

Within the last few days — and possibly as recently as this morning — MoveOn.org scrubbed its website of the juvenile and offensive “General Betray-us” ad of 2007. Details here, and yes, they’re worth a good chuckle for the morning.

Back then, MoveOne described Petraeus as “a military man constantly at war with the facts.” He was, as the ad put it, “likely to become General Betray-us.”

The ad also said that “General Petraeus will not admit what everyone knows: Iraq is mired in an unwinnable religious civil war.”





http://www.sfexaminer.com/blogs/beltway-confidential/moveon-sends-general-betray-us-down-memory-hole#ixzz2ByVy2HsF

[leveymg]

1. Weird. Events have basically proven that ad to be substantially correct.

Iraq indeed proved to be unwinnable, and there is, in effect, no longer one but three Iraqs: the oil-rich Kurdish north, the Sunni center, and the Shi'ia south with most of the country's population.

Petraeus went on to be at war with the facts in an unwinnable Afghanistan war, and most recently Libya and Syria - every country he's touched, he has escalated wars and set off "ethnic cleansing".