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		<title>By: bowser</title>
		<link>https://habitablezone.com/2012/11/13/patraeus-sex-scandal-keeps-getting-weirder/#comment-20651</link>
		<dc:creator>bowser</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Nov 2012 03:23:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I agree with Lindy, that &quot;sex&quot; is being used as an excuse to cover up something else.  Petraeus has bitten the bullet, taken the fall.  

It could well be that Kelly is an agent of some foreign country.  Broadwell is crazy, who knows what she was up to.  The calls to Kelly are weird, there&#039;s something behind that.

It seems to me that &quot;sex&quot; was used as a way to get rid of Petraeus without a trial, wherein much more would be revealed.  Someone is working very hard right now to keep the lid on, and all the cast on message.

I think.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I agree with Lindy, that &#8220;sex&#8221; is being used as an excuse to cover up something else.  Petraeus has bitten the bullet, taken the fall.  </p>
<p>It could well be that Kelly is an agent of some foreign country.  Broadwell is crazy, who knows what she was up to.  The calls to Kelly are weird, there&#8217;s something behind that.</p>
<p>It seems to me that &#8220;sex&#8221; was used as a way to get rid of Petraeus without a trial, wherein much more would be revealed.  Someone is working very hard right now to keep the lid on, and all the cast on message.</p>
<p>I think.</p>
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		<title>By: bowser</title>
		<link>https://habitablezone.com/2012/11/13/patraeus-sex-scandal-keeps-getting-weirder/#comment-20650</link>
		<dc:creator>bowser</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Nov 2012 03:18:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Male Republicans seem to do all right.</description>
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		<title>By: Lindy</title>
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		<dc:creator>Lindy</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Nov 2012 02:19:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Which is why so many Republicans are uptight</description>
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		<title>By: Lindy</title>
		<link>https://habitablezone.com/2012/11/13/patraeus-sex-scandal-keeps-getting-weirder/#comment-20645</link>
		<dc:creator>Lindy</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Nov 2012 02:18:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&gt;&quot;here’s why I think they will play the sex angle.
It’s because we want to keep the public from knowing that WE (the US) were supplying “Al Queda” with weapons in Libya. You know..our enemies. And possibly those weapons, those enemies blew us some payback in Benghazi&quot;.

WELL, WHADDAYA KNOW?
Petraeus&#039;s mistress had ties to arms dealers in the Middle East:

&gt;&quot;Paula Broadwell is a top-line US intelligence operative, and has links to arms dealer Jan Henrik Jebsen, who set up her position at Tufts University where she ran the Jebsen Center for Counter-Terrorism Studies at Tufts Fletcher School. Jebsen also has ties to arch-neocons Scooter Libby, Douglas Feith, and Michael Ledeen through his board position with the pro-Israeli Hudson Institute. The Hudson is directly tied to Likud in Israel, and works to cultivate the idea of radical Islam as the chief threat to the west. Paula Broadwell is in the middle of this matrix, and she herself has also worked extensively in Israel and Jordan, as one could imagine.&quot;

http://www.globalresearch.ca/american-blackmail-petraeus-affair-used-to-cloud-obamas-benghazigate/5311670</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&gt;&#8221;here’s why I think they will play the sex angle.<br />
It’s because we want to keep the public from knowing that WE (the US) were supplying “Al Queda” with weapons in Libya. You know..our enemies. And possibly those weapons, those enemies blew us some payback in Benghazi&#8221;.</p>
<p>WELL, WHADDAYA KNOW?<br />
Petraeus&#8217;s mistress had ties to arms dealers in the Middle East:</p>
<p>&gt;&#8221;Paula Broadwell is a top-line US intelligence operative, and has links to arms dealer Jan Henrik Jebsen, who set up her position at Tufts University where she ran the Jebsen Center for Counter-Terrorism Studies at Tufts Fletcher School. Jebsen also has ties to arch-neocons Scooter Libby, Douglas Feith, and Michael Ledeen through his board position with the pro-Israeli Hudson Institute. The Hudson is directly tied to Likud in Israel, and works to cultivate the idea of radical Islam as the chief threat to the west. Paula Broadwell is in the middle of this matrix, and she herself has also worked extensively in Israel and Jordan, as one could imagine.&#8221;</p>
<p><a href="http://www.globalresearch.ca/american-blackmail-petraeus-affair-used-to-cloud-obamas-benghazigate/5311670" rel="nofollow">http://www.globalresearch.ca/american-blackmail-petraeus-affair-used-to-cloud-obamas-benghazigate/5311670</a></p>
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		<title>By: Lindy</title>
		<link>https://habitablezone.com/2012/11/13/patraeus-sex-scandal-keeps-getting-weirder/#comment-20641</link>
		<dc:creator>Lindy</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Nov 2012 02:04:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I get it ER and I think you&#039;re on to something...LOL</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I get it ER and I think you&#8217;re on to something&#8230;LOL</p>
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		<title>By: ER</title>
		<link>https://habitablezone.com/2012/11/13/patraeus-sex-scandal-keeps-getting-weirder/#comment-20560</link>
		<dc:creator>ER</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Nov 2012 23:45:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>It probably has something to do with our Puritan ancestors.
They were even more sexually deprived than in the Mother Country, so sexual prudes were preferentially selected for. Their wacko religion did the rest. That was a long time ago, and few of us are actually related to the Pilgrim dudes, but cultural memes tend to be propagated, even to the point of unrecognizability. Fortunately, this problem is taking care of itself, slowly but surely.  There are fewer old WASP sexually hung up people every day. They are rapidly becoming a minority, and they&#039;re pissed.

In South America, by contrast, the Spaniards weren&#039;t interested in building the New Jerusalem, they just wanted to grab as much gold as they could and go back to Spain and live like Pharaoh.  They didn&#039;t bring their women, so they weren&#039;t squeamish about coupling with the Indians and the African slaves, neither of whom was in any position to say no. They weren&#039;t very keen on settling down here either, although they soon learned it wasn&#039;t all that easy to go home once they got here.

The result: in Latin America they didn&#039;t develop the strong economic and civic institutions we did here, but neither did they get bogged down in racism, fundamentalist Protestantism, and sexual dysfunction, either.  And that ugly trio of American neuroses is tailor-made for exploitation by right-wing politics, isn&#039;t it?  People who aren&#039;t getting laid regular can&#039;t think straight.  They blame other races and nations for their financial problems, and think God will smite the unbelievers because he is their personal friend. If you are sexually frustrated, you have to channel all that energy somewhere, religion and politics are just the ticket.

Yes, I realize its overly simplified to the point of triviality, but there is a grain of truth to that analysis, trust me.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>It probably has something to do with our Puritan ancestors.<br />
They were even more sexually deprived than in the Mother Country, so sexual prudes were preferentially selected for. Their wacko religion did the rest. That was a long time ago, and few of us are actually related to the Pilgrim dudes, but cultural memes tend to be propagated, even to the point of unrecognizability. Fortunately, this problem is taking care of itself, slowly but surely.  There are fewer old WASP sexually hung up people every day. They are rapidly becoming a minority, and they&#8217;re pissed.</p>
<p>In South America, by contrast, the Spaniards weren&#8217;t interested in building the New Jerusalem, they just wanted to grab as much gold as they could and go back to Spain and live like Pharaoh.  They didn&#8217;t bring their women, so they weren&#8217;t squeamish about coupling with the Indians and the African slaves, neither of whom was in any position to say no. They weren&#8217;t very keen on settling down here either, although they soon learned it wasn&#8217;t all that easy to go home once they got here.</p>
<p>The result: in Latin America they didn&#8217;t develop the strong economic and civic institutions we did here, but neither did they get bogged down in racism, fundamentalist Protestantism, and sexual dysfunction, either.  And that ugly trio of American neuroses is tailor-made for exploitation by right-wing politics, isn&#8217;t it?  People who aren&#8217;t getting laid regular can&#8217;t think straight.  They blame other races and nations for their financial problems, and think God will smite the unbelievers because he is their personal friend. If you are sexually frustrated, you have to channel all that energy somewhere, religion and politics are just the ticket.</p>
<p>Yes, I realize its overly simplified to the point of triviality, but there is a grain of truth to that analysis, trust me.</p>
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		<title>By: ER</title>
		<link>https://habitablezone.com/2012/11/13/patraeus-sex-scandal-keeps-getting-weirder/#comment-20558</link>
		<dc:creator>ER</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Nov 2012 22:56:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Brass Bras?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Brass Bras?</p>
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		<title>By: alcaray</title>
		<link>https://habitablezone.com/2012/11/13/patraeus-sex-scandal-keeps-getting-weirder/#comment-20551</link>
		<dc:creator>alcaray</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Nov 2012 20:32:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Braid bunnies?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Braid bunnies?</p>
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		<title>By: Lindy</title>
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		<dc:creator>Lindy</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Nov 2012 19:10:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Why is an illicit affair the ONLY reason for removing someone from political office? Why is it that government officials, presidents and vice presidents included, can violate US statutory law and torture people, spy on Americans without the necessary warrants, murder US citizens without due process, confine US citizens to dungeons for life without evidence and due process of law, start multi-trillion dollar wars on the basis of contrived allegations that have no basis in fact, murder civilians in seven countries, overthrow legitimate governments, and all of these massive crimes against humanity can be accepted as long as no one in Washington gets any sex out of it?
MY FEELINGS EXACTLY!

http://poorrichards-blog.blogspot.fr/2012/11/american-immorality-is-at-peak.html</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Why is an illicit affair the ONLY reason for removing someone from political office? Why is it that government officials, presidents and vice presidents included, can violate US statutory law and torture people, spy on Americans without the necessary warrants, murder US citizens without due process, confine US citizens to dungeons for life without evidence and due process of law, start multi-trillion dollar wars on the basis of contrived allegations that have no basis in fact, murder civilians in seven countries, overthrow legitimate governments, and all of these massive crimes against humanity can be accepted as long as no one in Washington gets any sex out of it?<br />
MY FEELINGS EXACTLY!</p>
<p><a href="http://poorrichards-blog.blogspot.fr/2012/11/american-immorality-is-at-peak.html" rel="nofollow">http://poorrichards-blog.blogspot.fr/2012/11/american-immorality-is-at-peak.html</a></p>
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		<title>By: Lindy</title>
		<link>https://habitablezone.com/2012/11/13/patraeus-sex-scandal-keeps-getting-weirder/#comment-20532</link>
		<dc:creator>Lindy</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Nov 2012 10:59:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>And it is...a bit tawdry according to American prurient judgements. 

Actually I find this rather amusing, seeing as most pundits comment on the sex between consenting adults (married or not) as being somehow more SHOCKING and OUTRAGEOUS, than say... how the US allows torture, illegal indefinite detention, continued bombing of innocents in Pakistan by drones, or the LIES that have perpetuated a 10 year war..you know...REAL SERIOUS STUFF.

But nooooo.....sex makes the headlines.

But again; here&#039;s why I think they will play the sex angle.
It&#039;s because we want to keep the public from knowing that WE (the US) were supplying &quot;Al Queda&quot; with weapons in Libya. You know..our enemies. And possibly those weapons, those enemies blew us some payback in Benghazi. That&#039;s what I think.

And this scandal is a distraction. Will we ever find out? Right now everything&#039;s being done to cover up this disgrace. We can&#039;t continue on like this. Someone&#039;s going to catch (or blow off) our hand in the cookie jar.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>And it is&#8230;a bit tawdry according to American prurient judgements. </p>
<p>Actually I find this rather amusing, seeing as most pundits comment on the sex between consenting adults (married or not) as being somehow more SHOCKING and OUTRAGEOUS, than say&#8230; how the US allows torture, illegal indefinite detention, continued bombing of innocents in Pakistan by drones, or the LIES that have perpetuated a 10 year war..you know&#8230;REAL SERIOUS STUFF.</p>
<p>But nooooo&#8230;..sex makes the headlines.</p>
<p>But again; here&#8217;s why I think they will play the sex angle.<br />
It&#8217;s because we want to keep the public from knowing that WE (the US) were supplying &#8220;Al Queda&#8221; with weapons in Libya. You know..our enemies. And possibly those weapons, those enemies blew us some payback in Benghazi. That&#8217;s what I think.</p>
<p>And this scandal is a distraction. Will we ever find out? Right now everything&#8217;s being done to cover up this disgrace. We can&#8217;t continue on like this. Someone&#8217;s going to catch (or blow off) our hand in the cookie jar.</p>
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