Petraeus Report

The Senators Grill Petraeus; My Brother Messages Me From Iraq

Kelly Nuxoll | Posted 04.09.2008 | Home


Kelly Nuxoll

As the Senate hearing on Iraq was winding down, I received an IM from my brother Sam, a soldier in Iraq. He's asking the same thing as the senators: "What are we doing here?"

Jason Linkins

Crocker Vastly Overstates Progress On Iraq Benchmarks

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 04.08.2008 | Politics


Earlier this morning, Ambassador Ryan Crocker and Senator John Cornyn (R-TX) took time out from the rigors of their Iraq War hearings to play a little...

Jason Linkins

Evan Bayh Cautions: Don't 'Take Marching Orders From Osama bin Laden'

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 04.08.2008 | Politics


Soft-spoken Senator Evan Bayh (D-IN) may have been the last questioner of this morning's hearings on Iraq, but he ended up being a highlight of the he...

More Questions For Petraeus

Chris Weigant | Posted 04.07.2008 | Politics


Chris Weigant

What would it take for America to tell Maliki that we aren't going to support the Iraqi Army in any military offensive?

Jason Linkins

Wall Street Journal Pregames Petraeus, Discounts Dissent

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 04.07.2008 | Politics


On one level, it is fortunate that the Wall Street Journal, a day before General David Petraeus arrives on Capitol Hill to re-engage his attempts to s...

A Song for Gen. Petraeus

Max and the Marginalized | Posted 04.07.2008 | Politics


Max and the Marginalized

Gen. Petraeus will be answering questions on Capitol Hill this week, and since it's the congress and not the press doing the asking, there might even be some hard ones.

Petraeus' Call for a Pause is Really Just "Stay the Course 2.0"

Arianna Huffington | Posted 04.07.2008 | Politics


Arianna Huffington

Since "stay the course" was 12 slogans ago, the Bush administration had to come up with a new one.

Petraeus Testimony Field Manual

Spencer Ackerman | Posted 04.04.2008 | Politics


Spencer Ackerman

With all the talk about what questions Petraeus is likely to face next week, less attention has been paid to what the general's potential answers could be.

Questions For Petraeus

Chris Weigant | Posted 04.02.2008 | Politics


Chris Weigant

If only Maliki had waited two or three weeks, Petraeus and Crocker could have testified that everything was hunky-dory in Iraq, and gotten out of Washington unscathed.

Jason Linkins

Dana Perino, The Gift That Keeps On Giving: A Neverending Surge

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 03.25.2008 | Politics


Years after missions were declared to have been accomplished in Iraq, it's still difficult to get a straight answer out of the Bush administration as ...

Sailing Against The Wind: Senator Lieberman Speaks His Mind As An Independent Democrat

Robert Guttman | Posted 11.13.2007 | Politics


Robert Guttman

Lieberman needs to see the extent of this anger among his old party and the party needs to accept him as a strong voice for a strong international Democratic foreign policy.

Newspeak and the New War in Iran

Gareth Porter | Posted 10.25.2007 | Politics


Gareth Porter

In the fast-morphing war in Iraq, "evidence" has taken on an expansive new meaning.

Thomas B. Edsall

Questioning Petraeus: Squandered Opportunities, Longwinded Monologues

HuffingtonPost.com | Thomas B. Edsall | Posted 09.19.2007 | Home


About halfway through the September 11 Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing with General David Petraeus and Iraq Ambassador Ryan Crocker, Senato...

Brian Williams Challenges Petraeus On Al Qaida Fearmongering

Eat The Press | Rachel Sklar | Posted 09.13.2007 | Media


This week has been marked by two big news events: The Petraeus hearings in Washington, and the sixth anniversary of 9/11. It is probably safe to say t...

The One Term President Conspiracy

Richard Klass | Posted 09.13.2007 | Politics


Richard Klass

The domestic objective of President Bush's strategy in Iraq is to ensure that the next president -- presumably a Democrat -- is a one-term president.

Putting The Lie To Petraeus And Crocker

Michael Schwartz | Posted 09.12.2007 | Politics


Michael Schwartz

I think that many of you share my need to read something that douses the stench of the last two days with some refreshing (but depressing) evidence about what is really going on in Iraq.

Crocker-Speak

Joseph A. Palermo | Posted 09.12.2007 | Politics


Joseph A. Palermo

Obama asked the United States Ambassador to Iraq about the lack of progress on the part of the Iraqi government to stabilize itself. Here is what Crocker said.

Reality Gap

Max Fraad Wolff | Posted 09.11.2007 | Home


Max Fraad Wolff

Asking General Petraeus to faithfully report on the entirely unknowable future course of his own actions is an act of collective delusion. The accuracy and honesty of his report is irrelevant.

4 Years Later

Washington Post | William Branigin, Robin Wright and Peter Baker | Posted 09.11.2007 | Home


The top U.S. military commander and diplomat in Iraq today came under sharp questioning from Democratic and Republican senators demanding a justificat...

Crocker: "I Can't Give You Any Timelines, Dates, Or Guarantees"

Washington Post | Posted 09.11.2007 | Home


"I can't give you any timelines, dates or guarantees," Crocker just said. Again, that seems to me the message of these hearings. Crocker and Petraeus...

Whose Honor?

Dan DeWalt | Posted 09.11.2007 | Politics


Dan DeWalt

Whatever you think of Move-On.org, they have every right to question this General's testimony. That anyone is willing to give them credibility is astounding, let alone to presume that we should trust anyone who is associated with them not to misrepresent reality when convenient.

The Petraeus Report: This Is What We Waited For?

Paul Rieckhoff | Posted 09.11.2007 | Politics


Paul Rieckhoff

Those with a partisan axe to grind will find plenty of material in the Petraeus-Crocker testimonies. But it's long past time to put aside the rhetoric, and to stop waiting for answers from on high.

Denying the Truth: Petraeus, Iraq, and Our Pontius Pilate Press

Arianna Huffington | Posted 09.10.2007 | Politics


Arianna Huffington

Like Pontius Pilate washing his hands of responsibility, too many in the Washington press corps want to pretend they are leaving the question of "what is truth" to their readers -- refusing to admit that there is even such a thing as truth.

The 2008 Literacy Test -- You Have to be This Smart to Vote

Ian Gurvitz | Posted 09.07.2007 | Politics


Ian Gurvitz

Whoever the Democratic nominee turns out to be will find him or herself weathering lies and misdirection that will pull lesser minds under its sway. There is only one way to protect ourselves: bring back literacy tests.

Bush Chief Of Staff: Petraeus Is "Not The Decider"

PBS | Posted 09.06.2007 | Politics


Leadership in Iraq JIM LEHRER: Mr. Bolten, how did we get into a situation where one general named Petraeus has suddenly become the master whatever, ...


 

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