Hume interview transcript:

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,296394,00.html

I could not find a full transcript for either the House or Senate hearings.

Opening statement by Crocer to the House committee

http://www.state.gov/p/nea/rls/rm/2007/91941.htm

Opening statement (+charts) by Petraeus to the House committee

http://foreignaffairs.house.gov/110/pet091007.pdf

Senate page for hearing with Biden's opening statement

http://foreign.senate.gov/hearings/2007/hrg070911a.html

Report on Petraeus at the Senate hearing

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/12/washington/12scene.html

Report on Crocker at the Senate hearing

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/11/world/middleeast/11squad.html

Report on Petraeus at the House hearing

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/11/washington/11policy.html

Posted by: Quiddity at September 15, 2007 02:06 PM | Permalink to this comment

A few more links. Froomkin does a good job of rounding up the stories (+ links) on the events of the day.

For Monday, Sept 10 (House hearing)

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/blog/2007/09/11/BL2007091100967_pf.html

For Tuesday, Sept 11 (Senate hearing)

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/blog/2007/09/12/BL2007091201390_pf.html

Hey! Just found transcripts.

Monday, Sept 10 (House hearing) This may only be a partial transcript.

http://media.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/documents/ranking_committee_members_grill_petraeus_crocker_10.html

Tuesday, Sept 11 (Senate hearing) This appears to be the complete transcript.

http://media.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/documents/armed_services_cmte_hearing_091107.html?hpid=topnews

Posted by: Quiddity at September 15, 2007 02:15 PM | Permalink to this comment

I guess the full extent of the evil cynicism of the Bush regime is finally sinking in, eh greg?

I assume that you finally realize what the Bush "game plan" is now.... its not merely to hand off the Iraq mess to the next President, but to do so in a way that maximizes the loss of Iraqi lives, and the lives (and funds) of Americans in the process.

The Bush/Petraeus strategy (i.e. buy the appearance of a reduction in violence by paying off Sunnis who will never accept the authority of a Shiite central government, thereby guranteeing a genocidal civil war the minute the US attempts to disengage from Iraq) will go down in history as an even bigger mistake than the disbanding of the Iraqi Army. Its a strategy that is all but certain to lead to a regional conflict as the civil war becomes the proxy war between the US/Saudis/Kuwaitis and Iran, and expands beyond Iraq's borders.

a year ago, we had a situation where there was a chance that a US withdraw would not be accompanied by a full-scale bloodbath -- with Iran's help (and Syria's acquiesence) the "central government" would have made quick work of the "Baathist" insurgency -- it would have been bloody, but over fairly quickly.

But Petraeus has essentially revitalized the Baathist resistance -- giving them time (and money) to rearm and reorganize with US help --- we are now funding the same people we were calling Baathist terrorists a little over a year ago --- and these terrorists are going to use the money we are giving them now to sustain a guerilla war that will kill countless Iraqis for years to come.

And there isn't a damn thing any of us can do about it -- the odds of averting a genocidal civil war are reduced with each day that passes, and will be non-existent by the time Bush is gone from the White House.

At least I can say "I told you so". People like you -- people who ignored those of us who understood precisely how venal Bush was, and what a mistake it was to allow someone like Bush to lead us into a war in Iraq--- don't even have that small mercy to fall back on.

Posted by: p_lukasiak at September 15, 2007 07:01 PM | Permalink to this comment