1.0 link 95862 <![CDATA[Petraeus Shifts Sharply On Basra, Aligns With White House Spin]]> http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/04/09/petraeus-shifts-sharply-o_n_95862.html Perhaps sensing that his testimony on Tuesday was undermining the official White House version of events in Iraq, Gen. David Petraeus today offered a dramatically different interpretation of the recent violent unrest in Basra.

In this morning's hearings before the House Armed Services Committee, Chairman Ike Skelton asked Petraeus to give him some sort of sign that the nascent Iraqi government was within sight of being some sort of functioning body. Petraeus made an effort to assure Skelton that this was...

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