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• Bad Timing and Calendar Power on the 'New Way Forward'

  Published: August 24, 2007, 12:09 am

  Tags: Iraq, General David Petraeus, Ryan Crocker

  and U.S. Ambassador to Iraq Ryan Crocker must meet in both open and closed sessions of the relevant congressional committees to testify. Does this strike you as backward as it does me? Wouldn’t it be helpful to be able to read the report, then hear the testimony? Wouldn’t it be helpful to have the unclassified versions of the report

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• Bad Timing and Calendar Power on the 'New Way Forward'

  Published: August 24, 2007, 12:09 am

  Tags: Iraq, David Petraeus, Ryan Crocker

  and U.S. Ambassador to Iraq Ryan Crocker must meet in both open and closed sessions of the relevant congressional committees to testify. Does this strike you as backward as it does me? Wouldn’t it be helpful to be able to read the report, then hear the testimony? Wouldn’t it be helpful to have the unclassified versions of the report

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• Interview with General Petraeus

  Published: August 31, 2007, 12:04 pm

  Tags: Iraq, Terrorism, Ryan Crocker, David Petraeus, Diyala, Al Qaeda, Anbar, Counterinsurgency, Islamists

  The Australian has a very interesting interview with General David Petraeus. In the interview, Petraeus says that sectarian violence has significantly decreased and the increased American troop presence has Al Qaeda on the run.David Petraeus, the top US commander in Iraq, said the build-up of American forces in Baghdad since late January had

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• The Season of Reports

  Published: September 6, 2007, 5:28 am

  Tags: Tony Snow, Geoff Morrell, George W Bush, David Petraeus, Ryan Crocker, Iraq, Gao Report, Jones Report

  Petraeus and Ambassador Crocker, who know better than anybody else what the current state of affairs is on the ground in Iraq. And from the White House: MR. SNOW: There are a number of reports coming out...It's a season of reports. But we are certainly looking forward to hearing from the General who is in charge of overall operations and

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• Questions for Congress to Ask Petraeus, Crocker

  Published: September 7, 2007, 7:39 pm

  Tags: Iraq, David Petraeus, Ryan Crocker, Surge

  Petraeus and Ambassador Ryan Crocker. The first question and follow-up I'd ask if I were on one of those committees would be: General, Ambassador, have you seen the final report the President is required to present to us by Saturday, and does it bear any resemblance to reality, or is it just another piece of the lie-filled propaganda we've

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• The State of the Surge

  Published: September 11, 2007, 8:32 am

  Tags: Military, Eurasian Balkans, Politics, Usa, Subscriptions, Baghdad, Congress, David Petraeus, Democrats, Federalism, George W Bush, Harry Reid, Iraq, Iraq War, James Jones, Joseph Biden Jr, Republicans, Ryan Crocker, The Economist, The Surge, Tnr

  Petraeus, but Ambassador Ryan Crocker might suffice. Anti-war activists, like MoveOn.org (and its yellow advertisement) have highlighted the military costs of the Iraq War, but I value General Petraeus’ service and what he has tried to accomplish in Baghdad. Ambassador Crocker is target-rich, but that has nothing to do with how many

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• A FUNNY THING HAPPENED ON THE WAY TO THE FORUM

  Published: September 12, 2007, 6:18 am

  Tags: Gen David Patraeus, Ambssador Ryan Crocker

  David Petraeus and Ryan Crocker, the U.S. ambassador in Baghdad were supposed to show up and lay down cover for The Shrub. To their credit they did not. When John Warner asked whether the "stratrgy" would make the U.S. safer Patraeus answered "Sir, I don't know, actually" Sen. Bill Nelson, D-Fla., asked Crocker whether ethnic

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• Frank Rich Paints Petraeus as Coward

  Published: September 16, 2007, 7:37 am

  Tags: Iraq War, Frank Rich, General David Petraeus, Ryan Crocker, New York Times

  Petraeus and Ambassador Crocker could grab an hour of prime television time only by slinking into the safe foxhole of Fox News, where Brit Hume chaperoned them on a gloomy, bunkerlike set before an audience of merely 1.5 million true believers. So this is the portrait Frank Rich paints, not just at home, but to our enemies abroad, of the

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• Maher on CNN: Petraeus and Maliki Stooges' For President Bush

  Published: September 18, 2007, 7:53 pm

  Tags: Congress, Iraq War, Liberals Amp Amp Democrats, Bill Maher, General David Petraeus, Hillary Clinton, Maliki, Ryan Crocker, Wolf Blitzer, The Situation Room, Cnn

  Petraeus and Ambassador Crocker. BLITZER: You listen closely to General David Petraeus and Ambassador Ryan Crocker. Both are career professionals. A career military officer. A career diplomat. They made the case effectively for President Bush that the U.S. should continue this strategy. MAHER: Wait a second. He put the words in their mouth.

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• General Says 5 Iranians Should Stay In Custody

  Published: October 5, 2007, 12:00 am

  Tags: General, Says, Iranians, Should, Stay, Custody, Iraq, United States, Iran, Jalal Talabani, Raymond Odierno, Arbil, Baghdad, Tehran, The White House, The Washington Post Company, Ryan Crocker, The Pentagon, Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps, Iran S Liaison Office, U S De

  Lt. Gen. Raymond T. Odierno, the top commander of day-to-day operations in Iraq, said he will recommend that five Iranians captured by U.S. forces in January not be released when their case is reviewed this month, a move that could further increase tensions between Washington and Tehran.

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• Iraq Embassy Cost Rises $144 Million Amid Project Delays

  Published: October 7, 2007, 12:00 am

  Tags: Iraq, Embassy, Cost, Rises, 144, Million, Amid, Project, Delays, Baghdad, U S Department Of State, United States, James L Golden, Ryan Crocker, Tom Lantos, State Department S Office Of Management, Condoleezza Rice, Blackwater Usa, Halliburton Company, The Washington Post Co

  The massive U.S. embassy under construction in Baghdad could cost $144 million more than projected and will open months behind schedule because of poor planning, shoddy workmanship, internal disputes and last-minute changes sought by State Department officials, according to U.S. officials and a...

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• Iraq Embassy Cost Rises $144 Million Amid Project Delays

  Published: October 7, 2007, 12:00 am

  Tags: Iraq, Embassy, Cost, Rises, 144, Million, Amid, Project, Delays, Baghdad, U S Department Of State, United States, James L Golden, Ryan Crocker, Tom Lantos, State Department S Office Of Management, Condoleezza Rice, Blackwater Usa, Halliburton Company, The Washington Post Co

  The massive U.S. embassy under construction in Baghdad could cost $144 million more than projected and will open months behind schedule because of poor planning, shoddy workmanship, internal disputes and last-minute changes sought by State Department officials, according to U.S. officials and a...

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• Iraq Embassy Cost Rises $144 Million Amid Project Delays

  Published: October 7, 2007, 12:00 am

  Tags: Iraq, Embassy, Cost, Rises, 144, Million, Amid, Project, Delays, Baghdad, U S Department Of State, United States, James L Golden, Ryan Crocker, Tom Lantos, State Department S Office Of Management, Condoleezza Rice, Blackwater Usa, Halliburton Company, The Washington Post Co

  The massive U.S. embassy under construction in Baghdad could cost $144 million more than projected and will open months behind schedule because of poor planning, shoddy workmanship, internal disputes and last-minute changes sought by State Department officials, according to U.S. officials and a...

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• Extra! Extra! NYT Corrects A Mistake

  Published: October 8, 2007, 9:55 am

  Tags: Congress, Iraq War, Presidential Election, Barack Obama, David Petraeus, Joe Biden, Ryan Crocker, New York Times

  Petraeus and Iraq Ambassador Ryan Crocker. The news story reported an exchange between Senator Joseph Biden (D-DE) and Senator Barack Obama (D-IL), both Democratic presidential candidates: The senators were allowed only seven minutes each for questions, a limit that Mr. Biden, as a committee chairman, tried to enforce. But he did not try overly

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• U.N. Report on Iraq Details An 'Ever-Deepening' Crisis

  Published: October 12, 2007, 12:00 am

  Tags: U N, Report, Iraq, Details, Ever Deepening, Crisis, Baghdad, United States, United Nations, U S Armed Forces, Ivana Vuco, Ryan Crocker, Anbar Province, Abdul Karim Khalaf, Brad Leighton, Al Qaeda In Iraq, Syria

  BAGHDAD, Oct. 11 -- A U.N. report issued Thursday outlined an "ever-deepening humanitarian crisis" in Iraq, with thousands of people driven from their homes each month, ongoing indiscriminate killings and "routine torture" in Iraqi prisons.

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