Is Petraeus Quote the Most Revealing of Entire War?
In 2003, Gen. David Petraeus, then little-known, asked Rick Atkinson of The
Washington Post in Iraq: "Tell me how this ends." It soon became his
"mantra." But as his testimony this week in Washington showed, he still does
not know the answer.

By Greg Mitchell

NEW YORK (April 09, 2008) -- What will end up being the most famous quote of
the Iraq war? Remember, President Bush did not actually say "Mission
Accomplished." Perhaps Vice President Cheney's "final throes" will take the
prize. But increasingly, as the significance of Gen. David Petraeus grows
(seemingly by the minute), it seems possible that it might end up being his
once-obscure 2003 remark to a well-known newspaper reporter: "Tell me how
this ends." It was cited again on Tuesday by Andrew Bacevich in his New York
Times Op-Ed contribution.

Petraeus said that line when he was a Major General directing the 101st
Airborne during the U.S. invasion but, for some, his testimony today before
Congress suggested that he still did not have an answer to it.

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