i don't know if this is true i heard another guy on Bashir say pretty much the same things, however the Bush and his people were given to embellishment of heir own.
http://video.msnbc.msn.com/martin-bashir/49765219?__utma=34328804.1469924451.1351301887.1351638304.1352500960.4&__utmb=34328804.4.10.1352500960&__utmc=34328804&__utmx=-&__utmz=34328804.1352500960.4.4.utmcsr=nbcnews.com|utmccn=(referral)|utmcmd=referral|utmcct=/&__utmv=-&__utmk=172382113#49765219I mean no disrespect, but Gen. David Petraeus is overrated. I don't for a second question his intelligence, patriotism or courage. He just has had the misfortune of coming along at a time when the Pentagon hands out generals' stars and decorations like Mardi Gras beads.He has medals (commonly called a "fruit salad") from his collarbone almost to his bellybutton, yet he has seen very, very little combat. If you read his military résumé, he has been mostly a desk jockey. Again, the medals aren't his fault. The politicians in Washington, those in and those out of uniform, have cheapened them all by too generously handing them out for too little in the way of accomplishments.The only wounds Gen. Petraeus has suffered were being accidentally shot by one of his own men and breaking his pelvis in a noncombat parachute jump. He led the 101st Airborne Division from Kuwait to Mosul, Iraq, in 2003. That was a cakewalk. Saddam Hussein's army was technologically obsolete, demoralized and falling apart. It lasted only weeks. And that's it for his combat record. Even then, how close he got to the actual fighters, I don't know.There again, it's not his fault. A soldier has to fight the enemy available. Petraeus can't help it that there were no Germans, Japanese, Koreans or Vietnamese to give him a good test.What a far cry from the battles fought in World War II, Korea and Vietnam. I'm too spoiled by having known real heroes to buy into the public-relations types these days. A man I admire more than most I've ever met, Lewis Walt, received his second lieutenant's commission in 1939 in the Marine Corps. He fought his way across the Pacific, earning Silver Stars and Navy Crosses in bitter combat and suffering wounds on several occasions. Then he fought in the Korean War and again in Vietnam. After all that combat, he wasn't given his fourth star until 1966.
this is the video from Bashir's show
