Sunday, January 14, 2007

Dissenters become assets in White House's new plan for Iraq

Retired U.S. Gen. Jay Garner, center, and Ryan Crocker, left, then a deputy assistant to the U.S. secretary of state, take part in a U.S.-sponsored Iraqi citizens meeting to discuss a postwar Iraq in 2003 at an air base north of Nasiriya. Last week, President Bush nominated Crocker to become ambassador to Iraq.