Article: A year of surge, five years of war; America and Iraq.(Petraeus reports)

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General Petraeus offers some faintly hopeful news, but no quick way out of Iraq

ROMAN generals, after a foreign victory, earned a triumph at home. General David Petraeus, having yet to win in Iraq, was interrogated this week by impatient senators. The only similarity to a Roman triumph was that the Washington Post's sketch writer bobbed up and down behind the general's shoulder, thinking up witty ways to remind him he is mortal.

General Petraeus, America's top soldier in Iraq, and Ryan Crocker, the American ambassador there, argued that in the seven months since they last ...

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