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He had the courage to say the honest truth. Kudos to Petaeus. If the US wants to establish a democratic United States client state in Iraq, this is a fifteen year commitment. You have to raise a whole generation trained to like America to accomplish the goal of a democratic Iraq that likes us. Petraeus had the balls to come out and say our present plan of establishing a functioning democracy will take much much longer than the American people anticipated.
Remember that the neocons envisioned putting Chalabi in power as a dictator to replace Sadam. That is why the war planners thought this war would be fast, we would throw in Chalabi, change the military over to a Shia run group, wham bam, oppression system would be in place and we could start siphoning oil. Chalabi's brother was outed as the guy who gave the USA forged documents showing that Sadam had WMDs. When that went public the neocon war planners had to change course and go for a democracy.
Chalabi
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ahmed_Chalabi
In response to the WMD controversy, Chalabi told London's Daily Telegraph in February 2004, "We are heroes in error. As far as we're concerned, we've been entirely successful. That tyrant Saddam is gone and the Americans are in Baghdad. What was said before is not important. The Bush administration is looking for a scapegoat." [7]
