The other day we said that if David Petraeus can spin the Iraq menu this time around, he ought to be promoted from four-star general to five-star headwaiter.
Well, no promotion for heem. He couldn’t spin it. Petraeus himself conceded in his parting remark to the Senate Armed Services Committee, “The Champagne bottle has been pushed to the back of the refrigerator.”
(Retired Lt. Gen. William Odom, commenting on today’s testimony, caught it just right: “To continue to put the cozy veneer of comfortable half-truth” on the situation in Iraq “is to deceive the American public and to make them think it’s not the charade it is.”)
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