they were trivial, locker room remarks, reamarks that no one should have heard outside the circuit of professional warriors who made them. Tell me this: do you think congressional staffers ever make of fthe cuff denigrating remarks about the governance? The difference is that they don't have imbeds with them to scurry off and report them.

this wasn't an "imbed" (sic) situation. it was an interview.

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The difference is congress is not subject to the UCMJ and the president is not their CinC.

duh.....

Yeah, duh. You haven't a clue have you?
Officers at the rank of general are widely respected and are responsible for the safety of us and our troops. Congress on the other hand is a bunch of petty bimbos.

Complete agreement on THAT one.

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umm, having spent 20 years as an Army officer, I have a bigger clue than you might imagine. I was mocking you for stating the obvious...but, who cares?

I was answering your stoopid question. If no one cares why did you ask it?

It was rhetorical...http://grammar.about.com/od/rs/g/rhetquesterm.htm

I still see generals every Tuesday and write briefs for one. Many (not all) are respected. Some are tolerated, others feared. You really see a big difference between one-star and two-stars, and an even bigger difference between two-stars and three-stars. You would wonder how some of the two-stars got that far but you can always tell they are going no further.

Four-stars are in a class by themselves.
Cases in point:

I worked for GEN Mike Hagee for nine months when he was the DJ3 of EUCOM before being the USMC Commandant. You could see he was made for greater things.

One meeting with GEN Wesley " Did you know I was a Rhodes Scholar and that meant I studied at Oxford?" Clark, and that was all I needed. Managed to stay clear of him for eight months til I left his command.

I only met politicians when I was a bartender in grad school at Georgetown, making Ted Kennedy martinis in a 20 oz slurpee size.

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Now you've been caught up in txjakes silliness too.

silliness? how is stating the obvious about a certain small group of men (usually) who get where they are due to their SKILLS are different from others, including politicians who only have to convince the great unwashed masses that they are the next great agent of change....