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Timothy H. Bishop: “I would certainly agree. And I think we all await General Petraeus' report. And I don't know General Petraeus, but I…”

On the recordJune 6, 2007
I would certainly agree. And I think we all await General Petraeus' report. And I don't know General Petraeus, but I have been told that he is a man of absolutely rigorous and unimpeachable intellectual honesty and he will give us an honest, spin-free report, which I think is something that we all need and would value. But I also think sending that coalition of people, as you say, Republicans and Democrats, liberals and conservatives, back to see on the ground conditions 9, 10 months after they wrote their report or 11 months after they wrote their report, I think would be enormously valuable and again perhaps would spur both the Congress and the administration to take their recommendations more seriously or give greater weight to them than we have thus far.
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Timothy H. Bishop
New York

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Discussing the importance of General Petraeus' report and the need for bipartisan assessment of conditions on the ground.

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