This is an item I pick up off Rich Galen's blog Mullings
This is the actual transcript, according to the Washington Post, of Obama's first question of General Petraius:
"Should we be successful in Mosul, should you continue, General, with the effective operations that you've been engaged in, assuming that in that narrow military effort we are successful, do we anticipate that there ever comes a time where Al Qaida in Iraq could not reconstitute itself?"
Try reading that again!
