Petraeus, Crocker Face Skepticism on Drawdown
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Army Gen. David H. Petraeus and U.S. Ambassador Ryan C. Crocker went before Congress for a second day today to deliver a progress report on the war in Iraq and explain a new military plan to withdraw the 30,000 reinforcements sent there earlier this year to improve security.
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The U.S. military expects to decide  within a week whether to withhold 15 percent of bills paid to  Halliburton Co. HAL.N for work in Iraq, an Army spokeswoman  said Wednesday, as Democrats cried foul over why the Army was  flip-flopping on the issue.
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In agreeing to stop the post-'surge' drawdown in Iraq, Defense secretary keeps pressure on the service.
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President Bush heard a blunt and dismal assessment of his handling of Iraq from a group of military experts yesterday, but the advisers shared the White House's skeptical view of the recommendations made last week by the bipartisan Iraq Study Group, sources said.
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Iraq's military is drawing up plans to cope with any quick U.S. military pullout as a senior American official warned that the Bush administration may reconsider its support if Iraqi leaders don't make major reforms by fall
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The Associated Press asked Iraqis for their reactions to some of the key points raised by Gen. David Petraeus and U.S. Ambassador Ryan Crocker about the situation in Iraq.
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President to cut numbers to pre-surge level after Petraeus admits end is not in sight.
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Statements from the 2008 presidential candidates on Gen. David H. Petraeus and Ambassador Ryan Crocker's report Monday to Congress regarding Iraq:
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Ryan C. Crocker laid out a grim forecast of what could happen if American forces were pulled back or even withdrawn from Iraq.
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The Iraq status report offered by Gen. David Petraeus on Monday and Tuesday continued to reverberate yesterday, with Democratic presidential candidates demanding a swifter exit from Iraq than the Bush administration is planning. And the campaign battle lines hardened, with Republicans attacking...
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The top U.S. military commander in Iraq, General David Petraeus, has suggested he would recommend a cut in U.S. troop numbers around March when he delivers long-awaited testimony to Congress next week.
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Under pressure to withdraw troops from Iraq, the White House this week will try to iron out differences among top U.S. officials over how large a force the U.S. military can sustain into next year, a key Republican senator said on Sunday.
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B y the time Sen. Johnny Isakson (R-Ga.) took his turn early yesterday afternoon, Gen. David H. Petraeus and Ambassador Ryan C. Crocker had been seated at the witness table for well over three hours. Most members of the Foreign Relations Committee had already left for lunch. Even the war protesters...
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Gen. David H. Petraeus and Ambassador Ryan C. Crocker have concluded that Shiite extremists pose a rising threat to the U.S. effort in Iraq, as the relative influence of Sunni insurgent groups such as al-Qaeda in Iraq has diminished drastically because of ongoing U.S. operations.
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Gen. Petraeus is a smart and capable leader. But he's not the savior Congress imagines him to beâand his strategy wonât work.
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The U.S. military commander in Iraq, General David Petraeus, has suggested he will recommend a cut in U.S. troop numbers around March when he delivers long-awaited testimony to Congress next week.
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BAGHDAD, Dec. 29 -- The top U.S. commander in Iraq, Gen. David H. Petraeus, delivered a positive but cautious assessment Saturday of progress in the country in 2007, citing the drop-off in violence over the latter half of the year but warning that the insurgent group al-Qaeda in Iraq remains the...