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"compromising the general, politicising the army and eroding the constitution"

 The Financial Times editorial is a 'subcribers only". But I have the paper and will transcribe it when a have a moment.  The above quote comes the paragraph below-as it appears in the FT.

"President George W. Bush’s attempt to subcontract Iraq policy and to trade on Gen Petraeus’s credibility in Washington – while compromising the general, politicising the army and eroding the constitution – may have bought him a bit more time for a doomed strategy."

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