Hillary and Petreaus Same Crime Same Outcome?

General Petreaus is a true American hero handing Iraq to Obama on an Al Qaeda free platter

His surge tactics on Al Qaeda bruised, blooded and beyond repair battered

Most of Iraq was almost completely pacified

For the American lives and limbs he saved he should have been deifed

But when it was suspected that his mistress author had classified material received

The FBI without hesitation from his papers and phones quickly he was relieved

He pled guilty to a charge of mishandling classified material and resigned from the CIA in disgrace

Fast forward to today and we see an investigation of Hillary’s private email server moving at glacial pace

Petreaus unlike Clinton did not destroy one evidence of wrong doing scrap

The FBI and the DOJ on Hillary’s email use seems not to have awoken from a long nap

Half of the emails have been supposedly wiped clean

Under her determination not the State Department’s that they contained only personal electronic scenes

Now we are finding rising concerns that classified top secret materials were given to Hillary’s aides

More so than ever it is  time for a FBI warrant seizure of the server  raid

Hillary true to her Yale Law School roots is trying the legalese bob and weave

If not plainly marked classified she thinks she is in the clear and could not deceive

In a strict legal reading  pleading ignorance of what should be classified, she may be proved right

But in the court of voter opinion watch that justification fade from sight

Once again the Clintons demonstrate a fatal flaw

When it comes to them they view themselves and will do anything to stay above the law

And for Petreaus, a general in the top 5% of his class and  on his collar wearing four stars

Even that status and his heroic deeds from the law was not the slightest bar

Sanders is on a role and Biden should soon join the campaign fray

More disclosures daily turn this coronation carriage into a pumpkin and rolling away

© August 11, 2015, Michael P. Ridley aka the Alaskanpoet
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