Crocker fudged, too.

Amidst all the overfocus on Petraeus' testimony (I'm guilty, too,) don't miss this fairly scathing NYTimes article on Crocker's omissions.

The assessment that Ryan C. Crocker, the American ambassador to Iraq, gave to Congress on Monday left unmentioned or glossed over some of the most troubling developments of the past nine months. His portrait of Iraq failed to include many of the signs of deepening divisions between Sunni Arabs and Shiites and within each sect, which has raised fears among many Iraqis that their country will fracture further.

His testimony did not address the continuing wave of internal displacements, only glancingly mentioned Baghdad’s starved infrastructure and said almost nothing about the government’s inability or unwillingness to deliver services to other parts of the country as well.....

The loss of faith in the government has driven Iraqis to militias, tribes and nongovernment organizations like Mr. Sadr’s.

That's not quite the "debate" over security that's being featured in the press, is it?