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CoffeeCat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-07-07 01:45 PM
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Is it coincidence....
....that the man--General David Petraeus--Junior recently appointed to be the new
Commander of US forces in Iraq---has a last name that rhymes with "Betray US"?

Just curious.
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Bethany Rockafella Donating Member (916 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-07-07 01:48 PM
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1. LOL!
I don't know if I should laugh or be sad. :shrug:
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lancdem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-07-07 01:48 PM
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2. Coincidence
I hope ...
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CJCRANE Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-07-07 01:49 PM
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3. Yes, there's also something
classical or Shakespearean about his name...
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Blue_In_AK Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-07-07 01:50 PM
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4. Like someone out of "Julius Caesar"
It's the very Latin spelling of his name.
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Sal Minella Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-07-07 02:08 PM
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5. "petra" is Greek for "rock" -- as in "petrified"
Edited on Wed Feb-07-07 02:08 PM by Idealist Hippie
Petra (from πέτρα "petra", rock in Greek; Arabic: البتراء, al-Bitrā ) is an archaeological site in Jordan, lying in a basin among the mountains which form the eastern flank of Wadi Araba, the great valley running from the Dead Sea to the Gulf of Aqaba. It is famous for having many stone structures carved into the rock. (from Wiki)
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Blue_In_AK Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-07-07 02:36 PM
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6. My husband actually has a tiny relic from that site
that he got when he visited Jordan during his marine engineer days. :)
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BuyingThyme Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-07-07 02:38 PM
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7. No, not a coincidence.
He was born David Jestesferral.
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