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[Getsomenews.com] Petraeus gives evidence to UK's Iraq war inquiry (AP ...: AP – The head of Britain’s inquiry into the Iraq war says his panel has held a private meeting with U.S. General David Petraeus.

[Get Some News -- Middle East] Petraeus gives evidence to UK's Iraq war inquiry (AP) | Get Some ...: Published by admin on June 29, 2010 filed under Don't Miss, Most Viewed · Comments (0). AP - The head of Britain's inquiry into the Iraq war says his panel has held a private .

[GeoFun Online News Network] Petraeus Gives Evidence to UK's Iraq War Inquiry | GeoFun Online ...: ET LONDON (AP) — The head of Britain’s inquiry into the Iraq war says his panel has held a private meeting with U.S. General David Petraeus.

[Newstion.com] Iraq war probe resumes, Blix to give evidence | Newstion.com: got underway once again, it emerged it has questioned General David Petraeus, the top US commander for Iraq and Afghanistan. Blix is among a string of senior military and political officials called to appear before the five-member panel investigating Britain’s role in the 2003 invasion and subsequent conflict.

[The Daily Caller - Breaking News, Opinion, Research, and Entertainment] Petraeus gives evidence to UK's Iraq war inquiry | The Daily ...: Chilcot said Tuesday his panel held a meeting with Petraeus in London earlier this month, before Petraeus was appointed the new head of U.S. forces in Afghanistan. Chilcot did not provide further details.

[Politics Daily] Petraeus Takes Command as Afghan War Problems Escalate: Much of the increase in violence, according to senior U.S. commanders, is because U.S. forces are pushing into areas in which the Taliban has had free rein. "And one thing that happens when Western forces show up in an area that is increasingly Taliban controlled is you get violence,'' said Stephen Biddle, senior analyst at the Council on Foreign Relations in Washington.

[Fiza News] Petraeus gives evidence to UK Iraq war inquiry | Fiza News: LONDON: The head of Britain’s inquiry into the Iraq war says his panel has held a private meeting with U.S. General David Petraeus.

[Iraq Inquiry Digest] The Price of Justice » Iraq Inquiry Digest: Human rights groups were dismayed by the Iraqi compensation figures. “The human cost of the Iraq war has been staggering, in terms of killings and maiming of civilians and other gross human rights abuses against civilians, at the hands of coalition forces, Iraqi government and armed groups,”

[Rethink Afghanistan War Blog] The 36 Hours That Shook Washington - Rethink Afghanistan War Blog: In the 36 hours between the Rolling Stone bombshell and McChrystal’s firing, some perennial war cheerleaders in the Beltway establishment, including the editorial page of The Washington Post and Michael O’Hanlon of the Brookings Institution, did rally to the general’s defense and implored Obama to keep him in place. George Stephanopoulos, reflecting a certain strain of received Beltway wisdom, warned on ABC that the president risked looking “thin-skinned and petulant” if he fired McChrystal.

[Gaea Times (by Simple Thoughts) Breaking News and incisive views 24/7] 'Energizer general' Petraeus is tapped to tackle another war and ...: Petraeus says progress will be slow in AfghanistanWASHINGTON ”” A top-ranking American is warning Congress that the military situation in Afghanistan likely will "get harder before it gets easier."Yet Gen. David Petraeus (peh-TRAY'-uhs), who executed the Iraq surge in 2007, told the Senate Foreign Relations Committee Wednesday that Afghanistan is in no worse condition now than Iraq was when he arrived there to take command of U.S.

[LINGsCARS.com - Blog] News PIGLET: Petraeus set for Afghan hearing | LINGsCARS.com - Blog: Allegations of Russian spy ring in Great Satan baseless and throwback to Cold War, lah, Moscow's Bloody foreign ministry says. Eating rice!!

[SWJ Blog] So what now? (SWJ Blog): "I don't think there is a Brit that could have made the same call," Lamb told Dexter Filkins, who wrote a long piece on the US general for New York Times Magazine in October 2009. "I first worked for him in the Gulf war, and General McChrystal was the sharpest, fastest staff officer I have ever come across - and I had been serving for 20 years at that point," said Lamb.

[At War] Remembering Iraq - At War Blog - NYTimes.com: The administration has almost completely removed Iraq from the national agenda, and news reports about the war are fleeting and mostly lacking in important nuance and perspective. Add to this a still faltering world economy and a compelling legislative debate on Capitol Hill, and there seems to be few newspaper column inches left for Iraq.

[Swampland] Obama Changes Generals - Swampland - TIME.com: Whether the next Neocon President will use them for combat purposes (as, we both agree, had been intended by the Cheney group) is irrelevant to Obama's campaign promise to withdraw American troops from Iraq - the enduring Iraqi bases are part of the American global strategic landscape and therefore maintaining a presence there would be, in my mind, no different than maintaining a presence in Germany. Sure, the strategic element is "economics" not "national security", but it is still "strategic" and therefore legitimate.

[VQR] VQR » Blog » The Stringer and the Snake-eater: Typical of this is Mark Bowden's recent Vanity Fair profile of Petraeus, “The Professor of War.” Compare this with the New York Times profile of McChrystal that ran shortly before his ascension to the Afghanistan command in September 2009. Also missing in action from Hastings's oeuvre is any discussion of the tactical alternatives in Afghanistan, namely the approach championed by Joe Biden and noted historian Andrew Bacevich, a retired colonel who lost a son in Iraq.

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