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April 8
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Anthony Cordesman, the CSIS Arleigh A. Burke Chair in Strategy, was quoted by NPR.org, "Petraeus, Crocker Warn Iraq Progress is Reversible."
Gen. David Petraeus, the top U.S. commander in Iraq, told a Senate panel on Tuesday that American and Iraqi forces had made great strides toward the goal of bringing security to the country, but called for an open-ended suspension of troop withdrawals that he said could jeopardize progress. Speaking to the Senate Armed Service Committee, the Iraq war commander told lawmakers that there had been "significant but uneven security progress" in Iraq since the so-called surge strategy put 30,000 more soldiers on the ground in Iraq. Read More
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