Q&A: Gen. David Petraeus on Leaving Iraq | Newsweek Iraq War | Newsweek.com
we have to be very careful, and we are with respect to Anbar. We know [the insurgents are] trying to come back in … and we have picked up a number of those individuals who have tried to come back in. And of course they attacked and killed several of our marines and sheiks in the attack [June 26 in Karmah, near Fallujah]. But the fact is that the level of violence in Anbar is the lowest in our recorded history, literally, the lowest of any of our data.
Read it all. Hope he enters politics someday. He seems to tell the unvarnished truth.
h/t: Michael Yon
