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Petraeus and Crocker Testimony and Analysis
ResumeThis week, on the path now to a US presidential election - with Iraq as a major issue - Petraeus is back on the Hill, with US Ambassador Ryan Crocker. Their first testimony, this morning, before the Senate Armed Services Committee. The stakes — for the US, for Iraq — are high. Future, still unclear.
This hour, On Point: General Petraeus and Ambassador Ryan Crocker, in the thick of questioning.Guests:
James Dobbins, director of the RAND Corporation's International Security and Defense Policy Center, he was Special Envoy for Somalia, Haiti, Bosnia, and Kosovo in the Clinton administration and the Bush administration's first Special Envoy for Afghanistan.
Bing West, served as a Marine in Vietnam and as assistant secretary of defense under President Reagan, author of "No True Glory: A Frontline Account of the Battle for Fallujah."
This program aired on April 8, 2008.