Anthony H. Cordesman, Arleigh A. Burke Chair in Strategy, the Center for International and Strategic Studies in Washington interviewed by Bernard Gwertzman, Consulting Editor
Anthony H. Cordesman, a leading analyst of the Iraq war, says that the Defense Department's latest report to Congress on the status of the Iraq war borders on "deception" by painting an overly upbeat picture. The situation in Iraq has "steadily deteriorated," he says, in large part because the Iraqi political parties have failed to come together.
