Triumph
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- Oct 9, 1999
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Originally posted by: TastesLikeChicken
All these replies and nobody even bothered to quote Petraeus's response. What a surprise.
"Sir I don?t know actually. I have not sat down and sorted it out in my own mind. What I have focused on and what I have been riveted on is how to accomplish the mission of the multinational force Iraq."
It's not Petraeus's job to focus on whether America is safer. It's his job to focus on what he is doing in Iraq. Seeing as Warner is practically senile though it's understandable he'd ask such a non-relevant question.
Exactly. Not GEN Patreus job to defend America. Maybe in some nebulous general sense, because he took an oath when he was commissioned in the Army to do so, but that isn't his specific job as commander in Iraq. Anyone who thinks otherwise is grossly oversimplifying things.