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Baghdad: Iraqi politicians reacted to the testimonies of General David Petraeus and the American Ambassador Ryan Crocker to the US Congress on Iraq's situation with a mixture of optimism and indifference.
"The General [Petraeus] managed to express the facts very accurately unlike Ambassador Crocker who failed to diagnose the political problems," Omar Abdul Sattar, a prominent leader in the Sunni Islamic Party of the Accordance Front, told Gulf News.
Other politicians from different backgrounds expressed similar sentiments.
Sami Shourush, former Minister of Culture in Kurdistan, and close confidante of Kurdistan President Massoud Barzani, told Gulf News: "Iraqi leaders, especially the Kurds, are very optimistic about the Petraeus-Crocker report unlike the Becker-Hamilton report."
Abu Akbar Al Sa'adi, a prominent leader in the Supreme Islamic Council led by Abdul Aziz Al Hakim, felt the report was balanced.
However, Talal Al Sa'adi, a leader in the Shiite Al Sadr alliance, told Gulf News: "The Petraeus- Crocker report does not mean anything to us. The important thing for us is to schedule the US troops withdrawal from Iraq.".
Meanwhile, Arab analysts said the report suggests that Washington has lost the war.
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