General Petraeus Faints While Being Questioned

General Petraeus picked a perfect time to break down. Apparently if you ask the same question enough times, the (MIB reference) alien in their head sends out an electric shock.







6 minutes 20 seconds:

"I continue to worry about the message we are sending in the region, about whether we are going to stay or not, or whether we're going to do what's necessary to proceed rather than sending an arbitrary time-line.................(Thank god, a break)-"

Boring video, but a great dodge.

Poor guy. Those uniforms aren't that comfortable as it is and I am sure the heater is turned way up in the Capitol Building. Did you see that chunky officer in Alphas at the 7:25 mark? He wasn't a Marine, that's for sure.
It happened just as Senator McKain was singing the praises of the General as well.

Wow, got to put that in the book of things to do when under government questioning...but with most others I think there would be a pail a water dumped on you, a couple of slaps on the face and someone yelling "wake up!"

Hmmm, wonder if he was sick?

if I'm not mistaken
this is old news and has been
discussed on ATS already.

reply to post by boondock-saint


Yes - its happened back in June of this year. Jet lag, dehydration and no eating were blamed as the cause.

An article on it here..

General David Petraeus faints during grilling over US in Afghanistan

...I searched for it, I only found a similar thread in 2004...

reply to post by Frogs


That's what they want you to think. - thanks for the article.

This was a very nice photo op for poor little Gen. Betrayus

Originally posted by Happyfeet
This was a very nice photo op for poor little Gen. Betrayus

Those are alot of stars the Generals has on his shoulders. Have to make
sure they have the right "Person" for the job to hold em up. That said, I
think there are many things that could have contributed to him fainting
such as Temporal displacement aka jet lag, dehydration and probably
a bug or two.

Originally posted by Mr. D

Originally posted by Happyfeet
This was a very nice photo op for poor little Gen. Betrayus

think there are many things that could have contributed to him fainting
such as...

Being caught lying to the president on multiple occasions?