by Mark Silva
Gen. David Petraeus and Ambassador Ryan Crocker, who reported to the Senate this week on the “fragile” yet still “reversible” progress made in Iraq with the “surge” of U.S. forces, stepped over to the House today.
“There has been significant, but uneven, security progress in Iraq,” Petraeus said at a House committee hearing this morning. “Nonetheless, the situation in certain areas is still unsatisfactory, and inumerable challenges remain.” As he said the day before, the situtation in Iraq is “still fragile and reversible.”
“Nonetheless, security in Iraq is better than when we reported to you last September,” said Petraeus, commander of multinational forces in Iraq, “and it is significantly better than it was 15 months ago, when Iraq was on the brink of civil war, and the decision was made to deploy additional U.S. forces to Iraq.”
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