NYTimes quote of the day, from Petraeus

[Muttocracy]

I subscribe to getting the top daily headlines from NY Times by email. They put in an interesting quote each day. Today's:

QUOTATION OF THE DAY

"We haven’t turned any corners. We haven’t seen any lights at the end of the tunnel."
GEN. DAVID H. PETRAEUS, the American commander in Iraq.

[madokie]

1. I heard his sorry ass say it

probably the only truth said by either of them

[spanone]

2. after 5 years, all the more reason to get the fuck out. NOW

[Supersedeas]

3. and yet the media establishment continues to follow pre-testimony script of progress progress

progress

[genie_weenie]

4. It's the Nebulous progress

So ephemeral so unexplainable

Yet it's there and we need to stay!

[Sal Minella]

7. And "It's complicated" is the answer if anybody asks anything about anything.

[genie_weenie]

8. Well, I can't answer that.

But, the Surge has progressed and while I can't give you any concrete goals or benchmarks, it PROGRESS, which is the opposite of CONGRESS chuckle chuckle

Oh You Scamp Petraeus!

[Muttocracy]

5. and from the end of the article - the champagne remark?!?!

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/09/washington/09petraeus.html

"Even General Petraeus signaled that the war was far from a foreseeable end. When pressed by Senator Evan Bayh, Democrat of Indiana, about the basis for his positive assumptions, he cautioned: “The Champagne bottle has been pushed to the back of the refrigerator. And the progress, while real, is fragile and is reversible.”"

Who the heck is worried about celebrating at this point? Poor choice of words.

[islandmkl]

6. '...We haven’t seen any lights at the end of the tunnel."

good news motherf***er....

THE TRAIN ISN'T HEADED RIGHT FOR YOUR ASS!!

on the other hand, it is probably just getting farther and farther away....

[calimary]

9. Yep. And you CAN take that one to the bank.

He actually told the truth there, as sad and inconvenient as it was. For one brief shining moment.