Petraeus Spokesman: Glenn Greenwald lacks ethics, provides "comic relief here in Iraq"

[Rose Siding]

*That's the US military in the form of Col. Steven A. Boylan, Public Affairs Officer and personal spokesman for General Petraeus (Commander, Multi-National Force-Iraq)

My unintimidated hero posted the communication, which reads like a right wing blogger rant.

This is not the way you might expect a high ranking officer to address a civilian.

.....I do enjoy reading your diatribes as they provide comic relief here in Iraq. The amount of pure fiction is incredible. Since a great deal of this post is just opinion and everyone is entitled to their opinions, I will not address those even though they are shall we say -- based on few if any facts. That does surprise me with your training as a lawyer, but we will leave those jokes to another day. . . .

You are either too lazy to do the research on the topics to gain the facts, or you are providing purposeful misinformation -- much like a propagandist. . . .
.....
As we quickly found out, you published our email conversation without asking, without permission -- just another case in point to illustrate your lack of standards and ethics. You may recall that a 30-minute interview was conducted with the program that you claim to be a contributor. So instead of doing the interview with you, we went with the real talent, Alan Colmes. . . .

I invite you to come see for yourself and go anywhere in Iraq you want, go see what our forces are doing, go see what the other coalition forces are doing, go hang out with the reporters outside the International Zone since that is where they live and work and see for yourself what ground truth is so that you can be better informed. But that would take something you probably don't have.

Steve

Steven A. Boylan

Colonel, US Army

Public Affairs Officer

The hapless Colonel Boylan only illustrates Greenwald's assertion about politicization of the military.

More, and Glenn's response at http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2007/10/28/boylan/index.html

[hisownpetard]

1. Col. Boylan must've studied English even less than most childrens do.

[Webster Green]

3. Indeed..

Judging by his letter, this officer is not exceedingly literate.

Sounds like your typical freeper.

[IDemo]

2. Read Greenwald's book, then 'Decider' who it is lacking ethics

How Would a Patriot Act? Defending American Values from a President Run Amok
http://www.amazon.com/Patriot-Defending-American-Values-President/dp/097794400X

[tabasco]

4. The military has been corrupted just like the government.

Yes-men have been appointed to the highest positions.

The military has been gutted of competent officers and gutless weasels have taken their place.

[EFerrari]

5. And speaking of ethics, remember this little problem the general had?

War profiteers linked to Petraeus!

Edited on Sun Sep-16-07 01:32 PM by BornagainDUer
Another important front is (finally) emerging in coverage of Iraq: a widening scandal over corruption and where all that American money and weaponry has actually been going for four years. McClatchy newspapers reported that hundreds of thousands of dollars in US rebuilding money went to insurgents (still only a fraction of the billions that went missing overall). The Army accused Lee Dynamics International of paying hundreds of thousands of dollars in bribes to US officials to get $11 million in contracts. The New York Times reported that several federal agencies are investigating weapons sales, disappearances, fraud, kickbacks, and black market profiteering by US officials. And one investigation involves senior official who worked with a Gen. David Petraeus--yes, that Gen. Petraeus--when he was heading the effort to arms and train Iraqi militias and death squads army and police units in 2004-05. (Heckuva job, Davie.) Also from the Times: US weapons given to the Iraqi army are being found used by criminal gangs in Turkey. (No surprise there; we've flooded the black market in arms the world over by handing out AK-47s etc. like candy in Iraq.) And, Deputy Undersecretary of Defense Paul Brinkley (another political appointee) was accused last week by a DoD task force of mismanaging government money in Iraq--and also engaging in public drunkenness and sexual harassment

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=389&topic_id=1821103

[TwilightGardener]

6. THAT'S a public affairs officer? Holy shit. Unprofessional.