Lieutenant General Doug Lute is before the Senate Armed Services Committee right now to become the president’s “war czar,” coordinating interagency efforts to support the Iraq and Afghanistan wars. Lute, famously, dissented from the surge. But in his written statement addressing the committee’s advance policy questions he gives a rather diplomatic answer about the surge’s progress (pdf).
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