As a public official General Petraeus is not above criticism. As for the facts of the article, it's painfully obvious that detractors cannot answer to them and paint this instead as a personal attack. They are welcome to rebut; why don't they? Last, I find this a very good quote from the article:"Last week, President Bush called the ad "disgusting." Eli Pariser, the executive director of MoveOn.org Political Action Committee, which claims to be one of the largest PAC's in the nation, responded to the president. "What's disgusting is that the president has more interest in political attacks than developing an exit strategy to get our troops out of Iraq and end this awful war," he said."Touche'.