Posted on 11/11/2012 6:47:17 PM PST by MinorityRepublican
Historians will likely judge David Petraeus to be the most effective American military commander since Eisenhower.
He was, after all, the person who, more than any other, brought Iraq back from the brink of total disaster after he assumed command of U.S. forces there in 2007.
To understand how daunting a task that was, recall that when Petraeus took over in Iraq, the country was embroiled in a civil war so vicious that civilians were dying at the rate of 90 a day.
Iraq's government itself was fueling the violence because the Iraqi Ministry of the Interior was home to a number of Shia death squads.
Meanwhile, al Qaeda's brutal Iraqi affiliate was recruiting hundreds of suicide attackers from around the Middle East who went on to kill thousands in Iraq.
As a result of this mayhem, some 5 million Iraqis -- around a fifth of the population fled the country or went into internal exile.
(Excerpt) Read more at cnn.com ...
He was in Afghanistan to wetnurse karzai and ensure the drug trade. Don’t have to believe me. I calls’em as I sees’em.
Soon, the next few years, good decent men and women won't want anything to do with the military......
Yes, Petre-ASS, you DID chnage the military, but not for the good.
I meant to reply to another freeper.
We’ll see about the gunrunning in due time.
Genghis Khan Pacified Afghanistan.
Totally agree. In 20 yrs, the people who were there in the thick of things will be comfortably living off of their generous federal benefit package and will have "more flexibility" to tell us what really happened...
Oh I believe you....but if he was willing to let good troops die for that crap then he was treasonous ....
Zactly.
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