Posted by
Dawnsblood on Tuesday, January 23, 2007 6:22:49 PM
The General
thinks this is doable. I think he is probably the best man in the Army to try to tackle this but if he fails, I suspect Iraq is done. He is what we call the last man standing on our side at least. Lets hope he helps the rest of us up off the floor.
He said he would not have accepted the nomination to take command in
Baghdad if he did not believe Bush's plan could achieve its goals.
In his opening statement, Petraeus, 54, painted a grim picture of conditions in Iraq.
"The
situation in Iraq is dire. The stakes are high. There are no easy
choices. The way ahead will be very hard. ... But hard is not
hopeless," he said.
Petraeus is a former division commander and
once the head of the Iraqi training mission. Devoted early in the war
to trying to win the hearts and minds of Iraqis, Petraeus later wrote
the Pentagon manual on how to tackle insurgencies. He also previously
supported expanding U.S. forces in the region.