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McCain misidentifies Petraeus as Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
During Tuesday night’s presidential debate in Nashville, Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) made what could arguably be considered the most serious verbal gaffe to date by the McCain-Palin campaign when he misidentified Gen. David Petraeus as the Chairman...
Analysis: Success of 'surge' far from clear
Baghdad :: Iraq | about 1 year ago
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One of the oft-repeated themes in this presidential campaign (including during Thursday's vice presidential debate) is that the troop surge in Iraq worked, and it should/could/will work in Afghanistan. This ignores some pretty stark realities on the ground...
Tags: petraeus, foreign policy, David Petraeus, U.S, war, Iraq
Petraeus sees increasingly durable gains in Iraq
Baghdad :: Iraq | about 1 year ago
Credibility David Petraeus said on Tuesday that security gains in Iraq are increasingly durable but warned that that methods which helped reduce violence there may not work in Afghanistan. Petraeus, the former commander in Iraq who is credited by U.S. officials with...
Tags: petraeus, mccain, obama, barack, Iraq, debate, David Petraeus, U.S, john
O'HANLON/SHEARER: From losing to winning in Afghanistan
Kabul :: Afghanistan | about 1 year ago
Credibility David Petraeus is soon to take command, but in capital cities around the world, attention is now turning to Afghanistan . Incredibly, while the war in Iraq is now being won, the conflict in Afghanistan is presently being gradually lost. To be sure, violence...
Tags: petraeus, conflict, war, Afghanistan, obama, bush, Iraq
Obama adviser suggests Gates as possible holdover
Kabul :: Afghanistan | about 1 year ago
Credibility A senior adviser to Sen. Barack Obama said Thursday that the Democrat might see Defense Secretary Robert Gates as a candidate to remain at the Pentagon if Obama wins the White House. Without explicitly endorsing Gates for the job or predicting Obama's...
Tags: obama, marine corps, Afghanistan, pentagon, petraeus, war, will, rate, conflict, Iraq
Petraeus warns on Pakistan threat
Kabul :: Afghanistan | about 1 year ago
Credibility Speaking in London after meeting the UK Prime Minister, Gordon Brown, the commander of US Central Command said Pakistan had to deal with the problem. He went on to say he would help Pakistan make a a sustained commitment to deal with the militants. His...
Tags: petraeus, taleban, war, united nation, conflict, Pakistan, Afghanistan, bush
Petraeus talks to officers at Fort Leavenworth
Baghdad :: Iraq | about 1 year ago
Credibility David Petraeus had some words of wisdom to offer Monday to officers during a closed-door session at Fort Leavenworth. "It was his responsibility as a senior leader to come talk to guys like us," said Maj. Matt Konz, a student in the School of Advanced...
To avoid an ethno-sectarian civil war (The Jordan Times)
Baghdad :: Iraq | about 1 year ago
Credibility There is no better way to create this false impression than to pull out some troops in order to boost the US deployment to Afghanistan where Washington and its allies are losing the war. But there is no “victory” in Iraq, because the war launched by the...
Petraeus: more than troops needed in Afghanistan
Baghdad :: Iraq | about 1 year ago
Credibility David Petraeus said Sunday that experience in Iraq shows it will take political and economic progress as well as military action to tackle increased violence in Afghanistan. "You don't kill or capture your way out of an industrial strength insurgency,"...
Tags: petraeus, iraq, war, odierno, Iraqi, troops, David Petraeus, surge, ray, civil war
Petraeus` former deputy returns as Iraq chief
Baghdad :: Iraq | about 1 year ago
Credibility Ray Odierno is returning to Baghdad to command a slowly shrinking force in possibly the final phase of American combat action...David Petraeus as the overall commander of U.S. and allied forces in Iraq. Petraeus` 20 months at the helm took Iraq from the...
Tags: iraq, petraeus, Iraqi, odierno, ray odierno, war, David Petraeus, leave iraq, ray, Mr. Bush
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