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Anonymous wrote:The story reminds me of the NASA astronaut love triangle.

YES! Totally thought the same thing.

Anonymous wrote:I don't get Broadwell's motivation, did she find Petraeus attractive? He wasn't attractive even in his younger days.

Anonymous wrote:I cannot believe that no one has pointed this out:

"Petraeus had been scheduled to appear before congressional intelligence committees on Thursday to testify on what the CIA knew and what it told the White House before, during and after the Sept. 11 attacks in Benghazi, Libya, that killed the U.S. ambassador and three other Americans..."

It seems to be the key to all this.

http://www.thestar.com/news/world/article/1286182--state-department-liaison-jill-kelley-identified-as-second-woman-in-petraeus-affair

Anonymous wrote:I cannot believe that no one has pointed this out:

"Petraeus had been scheduled to appear before congressional intelligence committees on Thursday to testify on what the CIA knew and what it told the White House before, during and after the Sept. 11 attacks in Benghazi, Libya, that killed the U.S. ambassador and three other Americans..."

It seems to be the key to all this.

http://www.thestar.com/news/world/article/1286182--state-department-liaison-jill-kelley-identified-as-second-woman-in-petraeus-affair

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Anonymous wrote:817- you should be ashamed of yourself- how mean spirited.

Lets see what you look like at 60.

Yes-- that was both mean-spirited and disingenuous. This is a very normal representation of the way women look around 60. There's no way DP's behavior is his wife's fault, and there's no good reason DP, who certainly looks his age himself, should have believed he was entitled to cheat with a woman over 20 years his junior, and who is just 9 years older than his own daughter.

The Broadwell lady herself seems to be a bit of a loon, what with the husband and the hacking and the threats and all-- not to mention the "I already knew him from Academia", which no one actually says. But every woman who gets involved with a man older than her own generation is really an accessory to a misogynistic act against women in the man's own generation (which mean-spirited PP is apparently applauding).

Highlighted text^^exactly PP. This is the very dangerous subtext of this kind of act. Women need to be very clear that this is what they are doing when they engage in this kind of relationship. They kid themselves that they are exerting some kind of "power". But they are diminishing all women by doing such things. Broadwell got caught in her subject's awesome narrative--Petraeus is a GOD among mortals as a military strategist; it is intoxicating to be around any guy with that much power. She lost her shit completely as this CIA woman threatened her access to the general. She threw all reason out the window and resolved to take everyone, him included down in flames. What a nightmare. What a tragedy for the families effected. I hope that they can all come back from this.

I think the bolded text is a selfish and sweeping statement. The fact that you may or may not be in love with someone means nothing, because you are wronging an entire generation of women older than you by taking away one of their eligible men..." Whatever.

The statements above are really just first wave, woman-on-woman bashing. Really we should all know better than to criticize or call each other out for personal life choices.

I don't think the age difference should matter, but having an affair with a married person (in this case each is married and has children) should not be a personal life choice. Yes, people should be criticized for selfishly putting their own desires, needs--whatever you want to call it--without consideration of the affect on their families.

Anonymous wrote:I don't get Broadwell's motivation, did she find Petraeus attractive? He wasn't attractive even in his younger days.