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...Under questioning from Carl Levin, the Democratic committee chairman, Gen Petraeus conceded that the operation was poorly planned, saying Mr Maliki had not followed his advice....
...the surge will end by the middle of next year and then we will make a decision as to whether to reduce our troop level from the basic pre-surge level of 130,000 does not change our course in Iraq,” said Carl...
...Nouri al-Maliki called on senators Hillary Clinton and Carl Levin to “come to their senses” on Sunday and stop treating Iraq as if it were “one of their villages”....
...While he stopped short of calling for the ousting of Mr Maliki – in contrast to Carl Levin, the top Democrat on the Senate armed services committee who accompanied him to Iraq – Mr Warner made clear that...
...Carl Levin, the Michigan Democrat, this week called for the dismissal of Mr Maliki....
...What they did not do, with a handful of honourable exceptions such as Carl Levin of Michigan and Jack Reed of Rhode Island, was ask enough hard questions, or even the right ones....
...In September Gen Petraeus and Ryan Crocker, the new US envoy to Iraq, will present Mr Bush with an assessment of whether the surge has been effective....
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