I don't believe this is "not important". Those are your words. What I said is this "not unimportant". The opposite of what you wrote. This is not an issue that deserves so much attention **right now** for our country- its time is coming, but it just is not "ripe" yet. And, I agree this would be all over the news no matter who the President is.
But, I believe we should wait until official, verifiable versions or at least public sworn testimony is available, before rushing to judgement. Granted, the situation doesn't look good at all, but Petraeus didn't even testify under oath yet. What others repeated about his testimony is rank hearsay. Hell, those who were in the same room as him can't even agree on what Petraeus told them! The ball is already rolling. Let's just see over the next month or two what Executive, Military and Intelligence information can be verified and is made public. Let's get some sworn testimony we can listen to and watch for ourselves, before we jump to "dug in" conclusions.
I don't deny that something went very wrong and that there may be a cover-up as to the events and the talking points. Crap, I will even grant you that the conjecture might ultimately prove to be 100% right! But, we truly don't know that right now- and it still nothing but rank conjecture.
McCain, Graham and even some D's have spoken out that this has the potential to uncover some major wrongful behavior, for lack of a better word. It should not be a partisan issue. But, one thing experience should have already taught us all, is that of us that none of this will be resolved in a week, let alone a month or two. Notwithstanding this, I still think M and G are publicly behaving like unbecoming, little children, and clearly, Graham has already reached some conclusions unsupported by the info presently made public, if available.
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