Gen. Petraeus won’t seek White House
President Bush’s top Iraq war commander said Sunday that his command performances will be strictly military, not political.
Army Gen. David H. Petraeus cited Civil War-era Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman in declaring he had no interest in running for the White House.
“None,” Petraeus replied from Baghdad, when asked on “Fox News Sunday.” “And I think that Gen. Sherman had it right . . . when asked a similar question.”
The Union general said in a telegram to the 1884 Republican National Convention: “I will not accept if nominated, and I will not serve if elected.”
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