Testimony, recent reports not always on same page

WASHINGTON - Before yesterday's testimony by General David H. Petraeus, the top US commander in Iraq, and Ryan C. Crocker, the US ambassador to Iraq, critics of the war charged that the two officials would exaggerate success in Iraq in a bid to persuade Congress to continue to support a high level of US troops. (Full article: 872 words)

This article is available in our archives:

Globe Subscribers

FREE for subscribers

Subscribers to the Boston Globe get unlimited access to our archives.

Not a subscriber?

Non-Subscribers

Purchase an electronic copy of the full article. Learn More

• $9.95 1 month archives pass
• $24.95 3 months archives pass
• $74.95 1 year archives pass