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| US general under fire over surge |
| The top US military commander in Iraq, General Petraeus, has come under heavy criticism in Congress as he reports on the progress of the US military s
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| UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
, 11-September-2007
3:5:16 AM |
| House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Tom Lantos dismissed Gen Petraeus' assertion that military objectives of the surge were being met.
There were tactical successes but the surge was a strategic failure, he said, adding it was time for troops to leave.
Gen Petraeus told the Congress panel violence had declined after the surge
In his testimony before a joint hearing by the House of Representatives Armed Services and Foreign Affairs committees, he said he thought around 30,000 troops could be withdrawn by the middle of next year.
US ambassador to Iraq Ryan Crocker has also been testifying.
The BBC's Jonathan Beale in Washington says this evidence is unlikely to significantly alter public opinion or even shed any new light.
But US President George W Bush hopes that these two men's sober but overall positive assessment will now make it much harder to argue for America to pull out of Iraq, our correspondent says.
Meanwhile Iraqi Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari backed the surge, saying the strategy had produced some tangible results.
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