The Washington Post, Tuesday, April 8, 2008
Obama's first question to General Petraeus:
I want to just start off with a couple of quick questions, because in the
parade of horribles that I think both of you have outlined should we leave too
quickly at the center is Al Qaida in Iraq and Iran. So I want to just focus on
those two things for a moment.
With respect to Al Qaida in Iraq, it's already been noted they were not
there before we went in, but they certainly were there last year and they
continue to have a presence there now.
Should we be successful in Mosul, should you continue, General, with
the effective operations that you've been engaged in, assuming that in that
narrow military effort we are successful, do we anticipate that there ever comes
a time where Al Qaida in Iraq could not reconstitute itself?
It's the part in italicize that I cannot seem to understand. I have re-read it now, four times. This man thinks he can be a president and there are hordes out there who feel the same.
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