on fox news sunday yesterday, general petraeus relates that the president admitted to him that the surge worked in iraq. in public, it looked as though he would rather drink paint than admit it, but in private, faces with the situation that GWB faced in iraq, he admits that it was the proper decision.
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WALLACE: Did he ever acknowledge to you in any of these meetings that the surge in Iraq was a success?
PETRAEUS: He did, in fact, although I will also tell you that we have spent a lot of time taking the rearview mirrors off the bus and avoiding re-litigating, if you will, you know, past battles and all the rest of this, and focusing to the future. That's what this has been about.
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