RUDY BRISTLES AT MOVE-ON.ORG AND HILLARY FOR CRITICIZING (GASP!) GEN. PETRAEUS

According to Michael D. Shear in The Washington Post, Rudy Giuliani is planning to spend money to place newspaper ads attacking MoveOn.org and Hillary Clinton for their criticisms of Gen. David Petraeus. MoveOn ran a full page ad in The New York Times calling him "Gen. Betray-us." Hillary expressed scepticism over the rosy picture of "progress" in Iraq which Petraeus was giving the congress at the beginning of this week.

Hasn't Rudy ever heard of civilian control of the military? I know George Bush has abdicated his responsibility to the "generals," but why should Rudy think the rest of us are going to bow down every time a general walks by or speaks?

Maybe Rudy knows that the army is powerless to fight a war when civilians are against it. So maybe Rudy is trying to minimize perceived civilian discontent with the hated War in Iraq, so that the army can continue to fight Iraqis.