President Petraeus? Iraqi official recalls the day US general revealed ambition

[babsbunny]

http://news.independent.co.uk/world/americas/article2956422.ece

By Patrick Cockburn
Published: 13 September 2007
The US commander in Iraq, General David Petraeus, expressed long-term interest in running for the US presidency when he was stationed in Baghdad, according to a senior Iraqi official who knew him at that time.

Sabah Khadim, then a senior adviser at Iraq's Interior Ministry, says General Petraeus discussed with him his ambition when the general was head of training and recruitment of the Iraqi army in 2004-05.

"I asked him if he was planning to run in 2008 and he said, 'No, that would be too soon'," Mr Khadim, who now lives in London, said.

[eleny]

1. Spit - take!

:spray:

[shain from kane]

2. That "ass-kissing little chickensh*t" will never be President. n/t

[WCGreen]

3. Sorry Davey, you ain't no Ike...

Ike won a global war while Davey can't even cantain a small shit storm against an enemy that has no real heavy military weapons...

Yep, I like Ike...

Can't stand Davey...

[Catchawave]

4. So MoveOn was right ?

:evilgrin:

Hey, my husband retired as a (Marine) Colonel because he hates politics, and said "no" to Reagan. Small world here on the DU :D

[Lucinda]

5. "Me" to Gen P: It's A L W A Y S gonna be too soon for you to run

ALWAYS.
Schmuck.

[NI4NI]

6. Can anybody help verify or comment on two items I heard about Petraeus?

#1.....I was listening to Mike Malloy Show on 9/12 when a caller of his phoned in and mentioned something heard earlier on the Randi Rhoades Show about General Petraeus having worked hard for the re-election of Bush.

#2.....Malloy continued on to say that Petraeus is also considered to be a rapture-ready evangelical.

The only source Malloy cited was The Hill.com website which Malloy used, but I could not find anything there.

I'm only curious, and not claiming that either remark is true.