General David Petraeus

Army Lieutenant General David Petraeus is President Bush's choice to lead his new plan for Iraq which includes a surge of 21,000 more U.S. troops to the Persian Gulf.

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Gen. Petraeus calls for civilian 'world changers'

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The head of the U.S. Central Command said Friday the nation needs a new generation of civilian "world changers" who can help bolster the troubled economy, fix the health care crisis and tackle other pressing challenges in the future. "Now, more than ever, our nation needs leaders and world changers in its civilian ranks," Army Gen. David Petraeus said during a commencement speech for the 38 graduates of Georgia Gwinnett College, a suburban Atlanta liberal arts school that opened in 2006. "The many pressing challenges we face — from reviving the economy to overcoming poverty, from achieving renewable energy to improving American education — ... Read Full Story

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Petraeus: US will support Yemen anti-terror fight

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The official Yemeni news agency says the top U.S. commander in the Middle East is pledging American support to fight terrorism in the troubled Arabian peninsula country. Gen. David Petraeus met Sunday with President Ali Abdellah Saleh. The news agency, Saba, quoting a presidential statement, said Petraeus assured Saleh of U.S. support "to enhance security and stability" in Yemen and in the whole region. Saleh is facing a vigorous southern secessionist movement and a tribal Shiite rebellion in the north that has raised concern in his government's abilities to control all of its territory and prevent al-Qaida from using Yemen as a safe haven ... Read Full Story

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United States to Start Withdrawing Troops in Iraq Next Month

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Here is how this is supposed to work. Our United States commanders on the ground in a war zone will tell the president when it will be okay to start troop withdrawal in a time of war. It is not up to politicians sitting at home to tell the president how to run the war and pass timetable for defeat just for political gain. These same politicians, if they felt strongly about it, could simply cut off the money to fund the war. They won’t, they are afraid to. So instead they have tried 41 times now to pass a bill requiring the president to ... Read Full Story

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CNN REPORTS: PETRAEUS TELLS CONGRESS GOAL IS TO RETRN TO 'PRE-SURGE' LEVELS, THEN WAIT

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WASHINGTON (CNN) -- The top U.S. military commander in Iraq testified Tuesday that troop levels there should return to "pre-surge" levels this summer, but the military should gauge conditions before making further decisions. There has been "significant but uneven progress," Petraeus said, but recent violence shows the progress is "fragile and reversible." "The situation in certain areas is still unsatisfactory and innumerable challenges remain," he said. http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/04/08/iraq.hearing/index.html After the 20,000 troops sent during last year's surge are withdrawn, by July, the military should wait 45 days before deciding on more reductions, Gen. David Petraeus told the Senate Armed Services Committee. "This approach does not ... Read Full Story

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Gen. Petraeus Tells Congress To Shut The F--k Up

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Too bad Democrats keep skipping the General's briefings, or maybe some common sense could have been shoved down their throats. Every couple of years under every administration some idiot in Washington makes a public statement, or proposes a measure to "remind" the military and intelligence communities that what they say can be used by our enemies. This usually happens after some politician leaks classified information to the media which compromises the lives of those in the field. Of course, the military and spooks are all to well aware of the ramifications of leaking intel, but politicians never seem to be able to grasp this ... Read Full Story

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About Lieutenant General David H. Petraeus

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Official Bio:

Lieutenant General David H. Petraeus assumed command of the U.S. Army Combined Arms Center and Fort Leavenworth on October 20th, 2005 following deployment in Iraq as the first commander of the Multi-National Security Transition Command Iraq, which he led from June 2004 to September 2005, and the NATO Training Mission Iraq, which he commanded from October 2004 to September 2005. Prior to that deployment, he commanded the 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault), leading the "Screaming Eagles" in combat during the first year of Operation Iraqi Freedom. His command of the 101st followed a year deployed on Operation Joint Forge in Bosnia, where he was the Assistant Chief of Staff for Operations of the NATO Stabilization Force and the Deputy Commander of the US Joint Interagency Counter-Terrorism Task Force - Bosnia. Prior to his tour in Bosnia, he spent two years at Fort Bragg, North Carolina, serving first as the Assistant Division Commander for Operations of the 82nd Airborne Division and then as the Chief of Staff of XVIII Airborne Corps.

Lieutenant General Petraeus was commissioned in the Infantry upon graduation from the United States Military Academy in 1974. He has held leadership positions in airborne, mechanized, and air assault infantry units in Europe, the Middle East, and the United States, including command of a battalion in the 101st Airborne Division and a brigade in the 82nd Airborne Division. In addition, he has held a number of staff assignments: Aide to the Chief of Staff of the Army; service as a battalion, brigade, and division operations officer; Military Assistant to the Supreme Allied Commander in Europe; Chief of Operations of the United Nations Force in Haiti; and Executive Assistant to the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.

Lieutenant General Petraeus was the General George C. Marshall Award winner as the top graduate of the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College Class of 1983. He subsequently earned MPA and Ph.D. degrees in international relations from Princeton University's Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, and later served as an Assistant Professor of International Relations at the US Military Academy. He also completed a fellowship at Georgetown University.

Awards and decorations earned by General Petraeus include the Defense Distinguished Service Medal, the Distinguished Service Medal, two awards of the Defense Superior Service Medal, four awards of the Legion of Merit, the Bronze Star Medal for valor, the State Department Superior Honor Award, the NATO Meritorious Service Medal, and the Gold Award of the Iraqi Order of the Date Palm. He is a Master Parachutist and is Air Assault and Ranger qualified. He has also earned the Combat Action Badge and French, British, and German Jump Wings. In the fall of 2005, he was recognized by the U.S. News and World Report as one of America's 25 Best Leaders.

LTG Petraeus and his wife have two children, a son and a daughter.

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Order of Australia for General Petraeus

John Faulkner presents the honorary Order of Australia to General David Petraeus. (ABC News: Lisa Millar) The American General who led coalition forces in Iraq during the surge has been presented with an honorary Order of Australia. The head of US ...

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