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11 Sep 2007, 10:48 am
David Petraeus' report, and to give it a context of optimism, the president visited Iraq's Anbar province to underscore the success of the surge in making some hitherto anarchic areas less so. [read post]
11 Sep 2007, 2:54 am
  But we couldn't help observing yesterday how much the persuasiveness of the administration's case for its Iraq strategy depends on the personal character -- the ethos -- of General David Petraeus. [read post]
10 Sep 2007, 8:09 pm
UPDATE: Related thoughts from Michael Yon: "General David Petraeus's first day of testimony was completely accurate, and consistent with my recent experiences around Iraq. [read post]
10 Sep 2007, 8:05 pm
"Some House Democrats may have had their minds made up before General David Petraeus gave his thoughts on Iraq Monday on Capitol Hill. [read post]
10 Sep 2007, 7:26 pm
Colonel is the last rank that allows independent thought.I first heard about David Petraeus in Thomas Rick's Fiasco (link), a fascinating account of the "major combat operations" phase of the current uproar. [read post]
10 Sep 2007, 5:04 pm
That's from a WashingtonPost.com commentary on General Petraeus' testimony by David Bellavia, a former Army Staff Sergeant who is the author of "House to House" a memoir of his combat experiences in the second battle... [read post]
10 Sep 2007, 4:39 pm
David Petraeus, the top U.S. military commander in Iraq, and U.S. [read post]
10 Sep 2007, 10:33 am
The Joint House Armed Services and Foreign Affairs Committee Hearing on the Surge, featuring the testimony of General David Petraeus and Ambassador Ryan Crocker, has just commenced. [read post]
10 Sep 2007, 9:36 am
" And he does so in an appropriate venue, National Review, where he becomes an open apologist for General Petraeus: For those reading this after watching General David Petraeus’s Monday testimony, I strongly suspect that my main argument will have become apparent to many: General Petraeus is a straight shooter who does not and will not cook the books. . . . [read post]
8 Sep 2007, 6:31 pm
David Petraeus in advance of his testimony, will join Petraeus in pushing for maintaining the U.S. troop surge, seeing it as the only viable option to prevent Iraq and the region from plunging into further chaos, U.S. officials said. [read post]
7 Sep 2007, 4:01 pm
David Petraeus and Ambassador Ryan Crocker, no amount of Administration spin can hide the ugly reality in Iraq. [read post]
6 Sep 2007, 5:44 am
But this only makes it more troubling and should serve as prologue for the next large event in civilian-military relations: the president's effort to manipulate General David Petraeus's report to Congress. [read post]
3 Sep 2007, 7:33 am
David Petraeus to play the Colin Powell role, has had remarkable success creating the perception that the “surge” is succeeding, even though there’s not a shred of verifiable evidence to suggest that it is. . . . [read post]
31 Aug 2007, 9:58 am
I have been extremely careful in not labelling General David Petraeus as essentially becoming a political hack for the Bush Administration's Iraq policy. [read post]
31 Aug 2007, 9:42 am
One way Romney and Giuliani have evaded clear answers on the surge is by delaying the question until September, when General David Petraeus will report on its progress. [read post]
30 Aug 2007, 5:01 am
JAMES FALLOWS: "I think it's silly to complain that David Petraeus's 20-year-old PhD dissertation from Princeton has lots of vapid passages. [read post]