September 10, 2007 Slow Progress Being Made in Iraq, Petraeus Tells Congress By DAVID STOUT
... Feelings ran high [at the joint session of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs and the House Armed Services Committee], as some antiwar hecklers chanted "Generals lie, children die," before Representative Ike Skelton, the Missouri Democrat who heads the armed services panel, decreed, "Out they go!" and warned that anyone else who disrupted the hearing would be prosecuted. But there were further disruptions, with at least one screaming demonstrator hustled out of the room as General Petraeus praised the American troops in Iraq as "a new greatest generation." ...
<http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/10/washington/10cnd-policy.html?hp>
Carl
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