Washington, Sept. 10: Democrats and moderate Republicans in Congress have tough questions for a top military commander in Iraq who is warning against major changes to President George W. Bush’s
war strategy.
Gen. David Petraeus and ambassador Ryan Crocker were scheduled to testify on Monday in the first of three hearings this week on the future course of the unpopular four-year-old war. Officials familiar with their thinking said over the weekend that the advisers will acknowledge disappointing
progress in Prime Minister Noori al-Maliki’s bid to achieve national reconciliation but would urge Congress to maintain the US
troop buildup.
On Sunday, Democrats sharply questioned Bush administration assertions that seven months of troop increases might be working, citing continuing
violence and Mr al-Maliki’s political woes.
"The reality is that, although there has been some mild progress on the
security front, there is, in fact, no real security in Baghdad or Anbar province, where I was dealing with the most serious problem, sectarian violence," said Democratic Senator Joseph Biden, a 2008 presidential candidate who chairs the senate foreign relations committee and who just returned from a trip to Iraq.
By HOPE YEN / (AP)
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