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WASHINGTON -- Besides commanding U.S. forces in Iraq, Gen. David Petraeus has become the administration's top pitchman for the strategy in Iraq.
Today, he, along with Ryan Crocker, the U.S. envoy there, will present an assessment of the current strategy in what has become the most anticipated testimony on the war before Congress since the conflict began. It has been billed as the defining moment for a Congress and an American public increasingly frustrated by what's happening on the battlefield.See the full content of this document
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Iraq Report Unlikely to Alter Course
Not since Gen. Creighton Abrams, who replaced Gen. William Westmoreland in Vietnam, "has the political leadership looked to a military man to resolve a war many people feel has gone badly," said retired Brig. Gen. Kevin Ryan, senior fellow with the Belf...
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