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.

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Lantos tells the witnesses that, given all that this Administration has led this country to believe, he "doesn’t buy it." (0:32)

 
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September 10, 2007
« General David Petraeus gives his opening remarks to the joint session of the House Armed Services committee and Foreign Affairs Committee on his assessment of Iraq.
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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