http://www.opendemocracy.net/article/conflicts/architects_of_Iraq Comments for "The architects of Iraq, Tareq Y Ismael " en http://www.opendemocracy.net/article/conflicts/architects_of_Iraq <p>A potentially decisive season of hearings and discussions about the performance and future of United States forces in Iraq has come to a provisional conclusion with the Congressional testimony of the US&#39;s two leading players in Baghdad: military commander General David H Petraeus and ambassador Ryan Crocker. But any expectation that their or their predecessors&#39; reports assessing the progress of the military &quot;surge&quot; and its accompanying political efforts has proved futile. Instead, Washington - and United States political discourse about Iraq more generally - sleepwalks (see Gideon Rachman, &quot;<a href="http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/08fcfbb6-6537-11dc-bf89-0000779fd2ac.html">Many contenders but just one voice</a>&quot;, <em>Financial Times</em>, 18 September 2007).</p>&nbsp;<a href="http://www.opendemocracy.net/article/conflicts/architects_of_Iraq" class="read-more" title="Read the rest of this posting.">Read the rest of this post...</a><p><a href="http://www.opendemocracy.net/article/conflicts/architects_of_Iraq">read more</a></p> http://www.opendemocracy.net/article/conflicts/architects_of_Iraq#comment conflicts Creative Commons normal iraq: understanding the handover Tareq Y Ismael Tue, 18 Sep 2007 19:28:22 +0100 34573 at http://www.opendemocracy.net