Sept report on Iraq will tell it straight: Petraeus (Reuters)

Sept report on Iraq will tell it straight: Petraeus

By Alister Bull
33 minutes ago

HILLA, Iraq (Reuters) - The top U.S. military commander in Iraq
on Thursday promised the truth from a progress report on the
country that he will deliver to Washington in September.

"We are not going back to present examples of success," General
David Petraeus told Reuters and two other foreign reporters who
accompanied him on a trip to the city of Hilla, south of Baghdad.

"We are going back to present the truth, to provide a forthright,
comprehensive assessment of the situation at the time."

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Petraeus said he was well aware that the "clock is moving back
at a pretty high rate of speed" in Washington. But he vowed this
would not influence the September assessment, and cautioned
the report would acknowledge poor progress on some issues.

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