Spotlight Shifts to Views Of U.S. Envoy to Iraq

The Washington Post ^ | 9/10/2007 | Karen DeYoung

[generally]

Two witnesses will testify to Congress today on progress in Iraq. ... Yet despite the spotlight focused on what has become known as the Petraeus report, the testimony of the man sitting beside Petraeus at the witness table, Ambassador Ryan C. Crocker, may carry far more import for the long-term future of Iraq and the U.S. presence there. With little progress to recount in how the Iraqis have used the political "breathing space" that Bush promised his war strategy would create, Crocker's inevitably more nuanced appeal for time and patience is likely to be the tougher sell.

[generally]

This was the front page story in the Washington Post today.

The beginning made it sound like an attempt to undermine the Petraeus report, but if you read the entire article, it is quite good. A pleasant surprise.

[Eagles Talon IV]

Seems the DBM has all but conceded the military is cleaning up the ragheads methodically and effectively and have switched their focus to the failure of the Iraqis to get their new democracy in perfect order RIGHT NOW!!.

[Dems_R_Losers]

That’s a much tougher sell to Americans, though. We know it took our own nascent democracy 12 years to get it right and our original constitution had to be junked and redone from scratch. Iragis have lived under a dictatorship for a generation, it is going to tke some time for them to get it right too.