Biggest. If. Ever.
2 comments September 13th, 2007at 11:34am Posted by Eli
The Surgin’ General is thinking big:
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.
General Petraeus has a reputation in the US Army for being a man of great ambition. If he succeeds in reversing America’s apparent failure in Iraq, he would be a natural candidate for the White House in the presidential election in 2012.
I’m okay with making Petraeus’s presidential aspirations contingent on his success in Iraq. In fact, I would like to extend that same courtesy to all Republican presidential hopefuls.
(h/t pontificator)
Entry Filed under: Iraq,Politics,Republicans,Wankers
2 Comments
1. SPIIDERWEB™ | September 13th, 2007 at 7:58 pm
Simply put, I hope his presidential aspirations are dead.
2. Eli | September 14th, 2007 at 11:47 pm
If they’re tied to Iraq, you have nothing to worry about.