Thank you Paula Broadwell and Jill Kelley

We all owe a huge thanks to Paula Broadwell, and her imagined nemesis Jill Kelley, for unwittingly ending the failed and fraudulent career of General David Patraeus. This voraciously ambitious military man embraced and fed the desperate plea of President Bush to save his failed, criminal war in Iraq. The pro war corporate media pitched right in, plastering him on the covers of Time and Newsweek under the title: "Can this man save Iraq". Patraeus may have saved President Bush and his criminal war cabinet from even greater ignominy than they've already garnered, but he certainly didn't save Iraq and he certainly hasn't saved our equally failed and criminal occupation of Afghanistan.

We should be neither surprised nor disappointed that Patraeus became a bedfellow of his gorgeous biographer. Long before that dalliance began, Patraeus shared his bed with the Washington warmongers in the administration and the media to prolong our nine year Iraq war and current endless war in Afghanistan. With no victories amid the hundreds of thousands of needless casualties and trillions wasted, resulting in large part to his lustful drive for more General's stars and even the presidency, we are truly blessed that he has left the public stage.

Also published in the Chicago Sun Times, November 24, 2012