McClatchy's Nancy Youssef notes Petraeus opposes Obama's 16 month withdrawl plan

McClatchy's Nancy Youssef is one journalist who hasn't joined Obama's booster squad. She interviewed General David Petraeus and noted Petraeus believes Obama's plan could be dangerous. McClatchy:

The top U.S. military commander in Iraq isn't buying the increasingly popular idea of a publicly stated timetable for American troop withdrawal.

Gen. David Petraeus, the Iraq commander, said in an interview with McClatchy that the situation in Iraq is too volatile to "project out, and to then try to plant a flag on, a particular date."

With violence at its lowest levels of the war, politicians in both the United States and Iraq are getting behind the idea of a departure timetable. Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama was first, suggesting he would have combat troops home within 16 months of Inauguration Day. The idea got a big boost during his overseas trip, when Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al Maliki indicated support for that general timeline.

And this:

General Petraeus said, "We occasionally have commanders who have so many good weeks, (they think) it's won. We've got this thing. Well we don't. We've had so many good weeks. Right now, for example we've had two-and-a-half months of levels of violence not since March 2004," he said from his office at Camp Victory.

"Well that's encouraging. It's heartening. It's very welcome. But let's keep our powder dry... Let's not let our guard down."

The lefty commenters at the McClatchy site are fuming at General Petraeus.