Comments on: Bill Astore http://www.antiwar.com/blog/2007/10/14/bill-astore/ Fri, 10 Feb 2012 19:54:11 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Ryan http://www.antiwar.com/blog/2007/10/14/bill-astore/comment-page-1/#comment-13039 Ryan Tue, 16 Oct 2007 11:03:16 +0000 http://www.antiwar.com/blog/2007/10/14/bill-astore/#comment-13039 Charles, I enjoyed the interview. LtC Astoire brings up a lot of good points and confirms something that I thought when I saw Petreaus and all his medals. Hell, I thought to myself he's got more medals than Patton or McArthur. That is inflation of the worse form and it really does leave to a cheapening of decorations. He's right about it extending to evaluation reports. I receive one one year where I scored all "fives". Now, I knew that I was good, but not that good and when I pointed this out to my superiors I was told that that is what they thought. Later, I made the discovery that everyone got fives in the unit. You can't do any sort of planning or evaluating with nonsense like this. Ditto the medals. I think Astoire is equally correct when it comes to reading the situation and perhaps drawing the wrong conclusions. The medal inflaton I think has something to do with this. To me it is a symptom of corruption. I'm sure the White House and the Naval Observatory was breathing down his neck. I personally think that someone like Petreaus shouldn't be the one before Congress, but his superiors (and under oath). It is only because this administration has been caught in so many lies that this came about and it needs to be stopped. Charles,

I enjoyed the interview. LtC Astoire brings up a lot of good points and confirms something that I thought when I saw Petreaus and all his medals. Hell, I thought to myself he’s got more medals than Patton or McArthur. That is inflation of the worse form and it really does leave to a cheapening of decorations. He’s right about it extending to evaluation reports. I receive one one year where I scored all “fives”. Now, I knew that I was good, but not that good and when I pointed this out to my superiors I was told that that is what they thought. Later, I made the discovery that everyone got fives in the unit. You can’t do any sort of planning or evaluating with nonsense like this. Ditto the medals.

I think Astoire is equally correct when it comes to reading the situation and perhaps drawing the wrong conclusions. The medal inflaton I think has something to do with this. To me it is a symptom of corruption. I’m sure the White House and the Naval Observatory was breathing down his neck. I personally think that someone like Petreaus shouldn’t be the one before Congress, but his superiors (and under oath). It is only because this administration has been caught in so many lies that this came about and it needs to be stopped.

]]> By: Marycatherine Barton http://www.antiwar.com/blog/2007/10/14/bill-astore/comment-page-1/#comment-12884 Marycatherine Barton Mon, 15 Oct 2007 23:20:23 +0000 http://www.antiwar.com/blog/2007/10/14/bill-astore/#comment-12884 I was really disappointed to hear in this interview, both Charles Goyette and Bill Astoire give some excuses for the decision on the part of General Petraeus to betray the American people by his deliberately overselling the "surge" effects in his last address to the Congressional committee. I still say too darn bad that Petraeus was not required to give such testimony under oath. I was really disappointed to hear in this interview, both Charles Goyette and Bill Astoire give some excuses for the decision on the part of General Petraeus to betray the American people by his deliberately overselling the “surge” effects in his last address to the Congressional committee. I still say too darn bad that Petraeus was not required to give such testimony under oath.

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