David Petraeus resigns as CIA Director over extramarital affair

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Timing is rather suspicious. Maybe Obama is using this as a pretext to get rid of him?

Nonsense.  Petraeus is a great public servant and Obama is losing someone special at the helm over there....this is nothing that benefits the President.

Damn stupid reason to have to resign too.

It does make sense from the perspective that if Petraeus has been sleeping around, he could be blackmailed, which is dangerous for a CIA Director.  Nevertheless, once you admit you've had the affair, aren't you blackmail-proof over it?

He's admitted ONE affair.  The guy is the CIA director.  You are assuming that is the only secret he is keeping?

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But I do feel that affairs are more than a good reason to disqualify one from service. If one cannot maintain their fidelity and loyalty to the person they swore to "to hold, for better, for worse, for richer, for poorer, in sickness and in health," then how on earth can they be expected to be constant or loyal to anything (which is everything) less?

It's a great shame, but it was the only proper course of action.

The affair was going on for 37 years.  In that time he turned around Iraq and laid the ground work for us getting out of Afghanistan.  What have you been doing with your high horse for the last four decades?

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But I do feel that affairs are more than a good reason to disqualify one from service. If one cannot maintain their fidelity and loyalty to the person they swore to "to hold, for better, for worse, for richer, for poorer, in sickness and in health," then how on earth can they be expected to be constant or loyal to anything (which is everything) less?

It's a great shame, but it was the only proper course of action.

The affair was going on for 37 years.  In that time he turned around Iraq and laid the ground work for us getting out of Afghanistan.  What have you been doing with your high horse for the last four decades?

Here's the resignation letter  it went on for 37 years?

My bad.  I read that wrong.  It did NOT go on for 37 years.  I skimmed another report and misread it.

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But I do feel that affairs are more than a good reason to disqualify one from service. If one cannot maintain their fidelity and loyalty to the person they swore to "to hold, for better, for worse, for richer, for poorer, in sickness and in health," then how on earth can they be expected to be constant or loyal to anything (which is everything) less?

It's a great shame, but it was the only proper course of action.

The affair was going on for 37 years.  In that time he turned around Iraq and laid the ground work for us getting out of Afghanistan.  What have you been doing with your high horse for the last four decades?

Here's the resignation letter  it went on for 37 years?

My bad.  I read that wrong.  It did NOT go on for 37 years.  I skipped another report and misread it.

I wasn't trying a "gotcha"    It is a shame to lose a good D/CI

Oh I know.  I wasn't try to slander him either.  I personally don't care what he did in his personal life.  I mean yes I care from the blackmail perspective but with an affair going on he did his job better than 99% of the people I know who aren't having affairs.  People talk about his political affiliation but I can't imagine anyone being happy about this other than terrorists.  Obama needed this guy.  We all did.  It's too bad.  I wish something could be done.

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For pictures...

Paul Broadwell, the biographer for Dave Petraeus

This is emerging to be the funniest affair in a long time.



His mother... erm wife.

I will not post a reply to these two posts for a couple of reasons...

1)  I don't want to be hit with 10 death points for being "inappropriate" (code word for speaking the truth about the elephant in the room).

2)  I don't want an absentee mod who doesn't bother to read 99% of my posts to come in and read a factual objective statement by me to summarily declare I want to kill all females.

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The real elephant in the room is, of course, that perceived physical attractiveness neither justifies nor excuses otherwise unjustified or unexcused adultery.

No one said anything about justification.  When the weather man reports the weather I don't ask him to justify why it is pouring rain on my day off.