Sunday, April 15, 2007
Our Dear Embattled Leader consults with his commanders on the ground
Except this time. Acting on the belief that it was General Petraeus' birthday, he decided to spring a surprise on the general.
The timing of the announcement raising the standard length of active Army Iraq deployments to 15 months took the U.S. commanding general in Iraq by surprise, according to a senior U.S. military official here.No, not a shock to someone who has been in the top levels of command through 6 years of the Bushoviks and 4 years of Li'l Georgie's Glorious War. And there was no real need to tell him, the general is a good soldier. He will take whatever they give him with a "Thank You, Sir! May I Have Another, Sir!"
Army Gen. David Petraeus, commander of the U.S. military operation in Iraq, learned of the change in policy during a briefing from his staff the morning after the Defense Department announcement, according to the senior military official. However, the official added, he was “pretty confident” that the content of the announcement did not come as a shock to Petraeus.
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