Congressman Tom Lantos (D-CA) recalls a conversation he had with Gen. Petraus during a visit to Northern Iraq in October, 2003 where the General had said he did not have enough troops to guard an ammunition dump once belonging to Saddam Hussein.

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Lantos recalls the General as saying the lack of protection would one day come back to haunt us, and since then the site had been overtaken by insurgents and its weapons now used against the American forces. (0:40)

 
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September 10, 2007
« Congressman Tom Lantos (D-CA) tells General David Petraeus at the joint committee hearing to assess Iraqi progress that he feels the General, and Ambassador Ryan Crocker, were merely there on the Bush Administration’s behalf.
General David Petraeus tells a joint session of the House Armed Services committee and Foreign Affairs Committee that the situation in Iraq has improved since the troop surge. »
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