He's been telling reporters his views at the Pentagon, and you get a sense of the complexity of the situation when you hear how Petraeus starts with the problem, offers some optimism, but then qualifies it all with what's still going wrong.

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We've not looked at it yet but I think we'll have to see what comes forward and then decide whether we think that's fair and what there is that's wrong with it if there is something wrong with it.

BBC: News Online

The answer is you have to be satisfied that he's been rehabilitated as to what he did wrong, and then you move on.

CNN: Kevin Mitnick

For critics of John Howard, he became a totem for much of what was wrong with the Bush administration's war on terror, and what they complained was the then prime minister's slavish support for the US president.

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