article on maj. gen. petraeus

[pinkeye]

interesting article on maj. gen. donald petraeus. petraeus is one tough individual and worthy of much respect...

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A36843-2004Mar6.html

[XASA]

It is a great article. I see you have only Part One of a three part series. Here is Part Two:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A38936-2004Mar7.html

Part Three will be in tomorrow's post.

[defunct]

petraeus is the man...my pops knows him pretty well, apparently! They spent a good amount of time together in iraq (my pop's a war correspondent for cable news)...incredible scholar/soldier apparently and a rare breed these days.

He had the mosul region amazingly squared away at an early stage...now the stryker ibct share the 101st's previous AO and comparatively, they're a little green and struggling with the new weapon system.

[Elmo]

Petraeus seems to be intelligent. He was pretty much idolized during the war. He beat some private in push-ups for a photo-op. War needs heroes.

Given all the anti-war racket about oil, isn't it a bit outrageous to call their forward operating bases Exxon and Shell?

[XASA]

Part Three of Three-- Adapted from "In the Company of Soldiers" by Rick Atkinson (New York, Henry Holt and Company 2004)

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A41524-2004Mar8.html