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| UK Telegraph names Petraeus "Man of the Year" |
| 2007-12-30 |
| General Petraeus: man with a message of hope The critics said it couldn't be done, but the vision and determination of General David Petraeus have brought greater security and cause for optimism to the people of Iraq. He is The Sunday Telegraph's Person of the Year. For a man whose critics say he is far too fond of the television cameras, General David Petraeus, commander of US forces in Iraq, has been rather out of the limelight this Christmas. The sprightly, media-friendly 55-year-old is not perturbed, however, that his face is no longer number one item on the US networks. As he said last week, where Iraq is concerned, "No news is good news." Today, we put him in the spotlight again by naming Gen Petraeus as The Sunday Telegraph's Person of the Year, a new annual accolade to recognise outstanding individual achievement. He has been the man behind the US troop surge over the past 10 months, the last-ditch effort to end Iraq's escalating civil war by putting an extra 28,000 American troops on the ground. So far, it has achieved what many feared was impossible. Sectarian killings are down. Al-Qaeda is on the run. And the two million Iraqis who fled the country are slowly returning. Progress in Iraq is relative - 538 civilians died last month. But compared with the 3,000 peak of December last year, it offers at least a glimmer of hope. Nonetheless, why should we choose to nominate Petraeus Rest at link |
| Posted by:Sherry |
| #4 See also WAFF.com > PETRAEUS - US MUST SHIFT TO BUILDING IRAQ'S ECONOMY. |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2007-12-30 20:59 |
| #3 The Sunday Telegraph's Person of the Year, a new annual accolade to recognise outstanding individual achievement. The first ever? This is much more of an honour than Time magazine could give, when this year's joins the ranks of Hitler, et al, that they'd named in the past. I'll go read the rest of the article, now. ;-) |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2007-12-30 19:16 |
| #2 Now now Darth... ;) It's a good article, I read it in the pub earlier on. The photo they had of him in the paper wearing camo and (I presume) body armour underneath made him look like a bloody tank! Good bloke. |
| Posted by: Tony (UK) 2007-12-30 19:10 |
| #1 You mean the a press outlet in the UK did something Time and their liberal ass-bandits wouldn't?!?! Wow. Maybe there is hope for England yet. |
| Posted by: DarthVader 2007-12-30 15:54 |