Patrick McDermott | Visual Journalist

Editorial

U.S. Ambassador to Iraq, Ryan Crocker, and Army Gen. David H. Petraeus, commander of the Multi-National Force-Iraq, hold a news conference to discuss the current conditions in Iraq at the Newseum in Washington D.C., on April 10, 2008. Petraeus and Crocker discussed the current situation of the war in Iraq, after President George W. Bush announced he was cutting combat tours to 12 months from the current 15-month deployment on the general’s recommendation.
WASHINGTON, D.C
U.S. Ambassador to Iraq, Ryan Crocker, and Army Gen. David H. Petraeus, commander of the Multi-National Force-Iraq, hold a news conference to discuss the current conditions in Iraq at the Newseum in Washington D.C., on April 10, 2008. Petraeus and Crocker discussed the current situation of the war in Iraq, after President George W. Bush announced he was cutting combat tours to 12 months from the current 15-month deployment on the general’s recommendation.