Thursday, September 13, 2007

Huh.

Patrick Cockburn: Petraeus Confided Presidential AmbitionsTo Iraqi Official:
"The US commander in Iraq Gen David Petraeus expressed long-term interest in running for the US presidency when he was stationed in Baghdad three years ago according to a senior Iraqi official who knew him at that time. Sabah Khadim, then a senior adviser and spokesman at the Iraqi Interior Ministry, says that Gen Petraeus discussed with him his long term ambition to be president when the general was head of training and recruitment of the Iraqi army in 2004-5. “I asked him if he was planning to run in 2008 and he said ‘no, that would be too soon,” said Mr Khadim who now lives in London."

I don't know, I liked a lot of what Wesley Clark said and did in his aborted runup to the Presidency... I probably would have voted for him... But Petraeus?

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