"What I felt he should have said was Bush fired, like, a dozen guys until he found one to give him the "advice" he wanted to hear so lets not pretend Petraeus is some straight shooting military genius maverick."

Excellent point Rich. The way the hawks go around singing hymns to Petraeus, the MSM forget that he is the most recent in a long line of military leaders who were horrified by Der Kommandant and the war policy decisions he was allowing his underlings to make.