On Sep 10, 2007, at 2:25 PM, Carl Remick wrote:
> Wikipedia notes that "Petraeus did not see combat before his 2003
> deployment to Iraq." But get a load of the ribbons -- what the
> military used to call "fruit salad" -- on Petraeus's chest! You'd
> think the guy had thrown the Wehrmacht out of France single-
> handedly. Do they now hand out massive military honors for being a
> career suck-up?
Didn't they give out more medals for the invasion of Grenada than there were troops involved?
Doug