What Crocker and Petraeus didn’t say

(Adam Kokesh of IVAW protesting at Petraeus Hearings)

By Nancy A. Youssef and Leila Fadel
McClatchy Newspapers

WASHINGTON — The Bush administration’s top two officials in Iraq answered questions from Congress for more than six hours on Monday, but their testimony may have been as important for what they didn’t say as for what they did.

A chart displayed by Army Gen. David Petraeus that purported to show the decline in sectarian violence in Baghdad between December and August made no effort to show that the ethnic character of many of the neighborhoods had changed in that same period from majority Sunni Muslim or mixed to majority Shiite Muslim.

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