BREAKING: Petraeus considering running for president. For real.
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....
If this report is accurate it does put a new light not only on his plans for Iraq, but the report that he recently gave congress. If his concern is a future bid for the White House, he does not want to pull out of Iraq. Americans would elect a leader that won a war, and they have. They will not elect a leader that they feel lost a war.
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