For a pdf version of General McCaffrey's testimony for the Senate Foreign Relations Hearing on 2 April 2008 Click Here.
Yon also predicted that al Qaeda in Iraq “will no longer exist as a strategic component in this war” by the end of this summer. “Reconciliation,” he said, is now the “proximate challenge” that Petraeus should address in his testimony.
Read the entire article here in the Standford Review, written by Tristan Abbey.
On Friday, dozens of FBI agents and support professionals at our Headquarters in Washington lined up to give blood to the brave men and women of our nation’s military—the first time that the U.S. Armed Services Blood Program has ever held a blood drive outside of a military facility.
How that happened is quite a story.
On the Ground: The Grunts and The Press
This month marks the fifth anniversary of the invasion of Iraq. For many of the journalists who have covered it, it has been the story of their lifetime, but we’ve nevertheless seen coverage of the war slip off the front pages over the last few months. While there are still plenty of reporters risking their lives doing great work in Iraq, much of the political, social, and economic complexity of today’s war seems to be getting lost in the election-year crush..........
Barry McCaffrey, a retired U.S. army general and adjunct professor of international affairs at West Point, discusses past failings and future options for success in Iraq five years after the war began.
Please click here to read some important words from General McCaffrey.
Deborah Haynes is a writer paying her dues in Iraq. I’ve talked with Deborah on various occasions, and have added her voice to those I listen to about Iraq.
Ms Haynes writes for the Times of London, but also keeps a more informal account of her Iraq experiences here: Please click here to read Ms Haynes’ latest in the Times Online.
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