Iraq

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House congresswomen, including Rep. Tammy Duckworth (D-Illinois), right, who lost both her legs and part of one arm while serving in Iraq, stand together as House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) announces that she will stay on as House minority leader at the U.S. Capitol Building, Washington, D.C., Wednesday, November 14, 2012. (Andrew Harnik/The Washington Times)

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Navy Adm. Mike Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and Mr. Petraeus leave a meeting with Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki in Baghdad during a six-day tour in 2008. (Associated Press)

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**FILE** Gen. David Petraeus makes his exit following a Sept. 12, 2007, press conference on the current conditions in Iraq, at the National Press Club in D.C. (Rod Lamkey Jr./The Washington Times)

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**FILE** Gen. David Petraeus (center left), the top U.S. commander in Iraq, talks March 1, 2008, to players during a youth soccer tournament in central Baghdad. (Associated Press)

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**FILE** Gen. David Petraeus, the top U.S. commander in Iraq, sits March 1, 2008, with Iraqi children during a youth soccer tournament in central Baghdad. (Associated Press)

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**FILE** President George W. Bush (right) stands with Gen. David Petraeus as he arrives Sept. 3, 2007, for a surprise visit at Al-Asad Airbase in Anbar province, Iraq. (Associated Press)

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**FILE** Maj. Gen. David Petraeus (center), commanding general of the 101st Airborne Division, kisses his wife, Holly as his son, Stephen (left), and daughter, Anne, look on upon his return home from Iraq to Fort Campbell, Ky. Gen. Petraeus, the retired four-star general who led the U.S. military campaigns in Iraq and Afghanistan, resigned Friday, Nov. 9, 2012 as director of the CIA after admitting he had an extramarital affair. (Associated Press)

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While at Arlington National Cemetery for Veterans Day ceremonies, President Obama and first lady Michelle Obama visited Section 60, the site where many of America's most recent war dead from the Afghanistan and Iraq conflicts are buried, in Arlington, Va., Sunday, Nov. 11, 2012. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

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Illustration Obama's Iraq by Alexander Hunter for The Washington Times

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Blindfolded and handcuffed suspected al Qaeda members are led away to detention centers in an Iraqi army base in Hillah, Iraq, about 60 miles south of Baghdad, on Friday, July 20, 2012. (AP Photo/Alaa al-Marjani)

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** FILE ** In this photo Sept. 16, 2012, photo, a poster depicting Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Khamenei, right, and Ayatollah Mohammed Sadiq al-Sadr, late father of the radical anti-U.S. cleric Muqtada al-Sadr in Baghdad, Iraq. After years of growing influence, a new sign of Iranís presence in Iraq has hit the streets. Thousands of signs, that is, depicting Iranís supreme leader gently smiling to a population once mobilized against the Islamic Republic in eight years of war. (AP Photo/Karim Kadim)

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Robert Stephen Beecroft listens Sept. 19, 2012, during a Senate Foreign Relations committee hearing on Capitol Hill on his nomination to be ambassador to Iraq. (Associated Press)