> WASHINGTON, Jan. 4 — President Bush has decided to name Lt. Gen. David
> H. Petraeus as the top American military commander in Iraq, part of a
> broad revamping of the military team that will carry out the
> administration's new Iraq strategy, administration officials said
> Thursday.
Gives new life to that whole Roman imperial take (as in Doonesbury).
"Hail, General Petraeus! What news from Assyria?"
-- Andy