Into the witness chair in the Senate chamber marched Gen. David Petraeus, the blaze of ribbons on his chest suggesting actual combat experience a bit longer than the modest four years his record discloses. He was once shot in he chest, it's true, but that was in a military exercise in the United States when a soldier's gun went off by accident.

Somewhat mechanically, the general read through testimony freshly vetted and rewritten by Vice President Dick Cheney, a man well aware that des ...

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