now that the 'general betray us' controversy

has had time to settle down to a simmer, it's only fair to stir it up again, this time with shoot-first-ask-questions-later pols added to the stew, including jump-the-gun senators and presidential candidates as well as the usual gop media spin machine seeking to bring its brand of political correctness to bear against the left.

this blog picked up and posted the general's moniker on august 23, about 2½ weeks before moveon.org's ad appeared.

the source was a caller to washington journal that morning who said she lives in fort stewart, GA, and her husband is in iraq. she went on to say a lot of military wives and some soldiers call petraeus 'betray us' because to keep his job he does what the president wants rather than what's best for the troops.

so, senators, candidates, and assorted right-wingers, when you condemn moveon.org, you by implication condemn those warriors and their families who feel betrayed by their leaders.

thus you betray them too.

shove that up your pipe and suck it!