Petraeus Backpedals on Victory Remark
Gen. David Petraeus backpedaled on his previous statement before the Senate Armed Services Committee that he did not know if victory in Iraq would make America safer. Questioned about his earlier remark, Petraeus told Sen. Evan Bayh (D-IN):
Candidly, I have been so focused on Iraq, uh, that, uh, drawing all the way out, uh, was something that for a moment there, uh was a bit of a surprise…Having focused down and down and down, uh, that was something that, uh, that really, uh, at first glance that was something I’d let others above me answer.
Notice how Gen. Petraeus holds his head down most of the time he answers. Very uncharacteristic.
A four-star general and Commander of the Coalition Forces in Iraq, and he gets confused over whether the war will make America safer, or would pass that to his chain of command to answer?
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