It is fascinating to listen to the confessions of top officials when their misdeeds and malfeance are uncovered.
In the lexicon of General Petraeus describing his sordid affair with Paula Broadwell, we hear such phrases as:
"It was a colossal mistake." "I was guilty of the worst form of judgment" or " It was a let down of my guard."
All of these carefully phrased 'Mea Culpas' could come from the lips of a quarterback in a press conference the day after losing the Super Bowl.
But in case you think that this scandal embroiling the General is all about missteps and mistakes ask the opinion of his wife, Holly.
She is both broken hearted and devasted by conduct involving her husband's lies, infidelity,adultery, denial and cover-up.
No words from a military lexicon are going to fool her.
After all, Holly was the daughter of the President of West Point Academy from which Broadwell and Petraeus graduated and where, planted firmly in the grass for all to read, is the dictum.
"WE ABHOR CHEATING, LYING AND INFIDELITY AND ALL WHO PRACTICE SUCH."
Jubilate.
Ian
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