"Iraq's Repairman" Story aired: Tuesday, May 02, 2006
Iraq's parliament speaker today called for an end to widespread bloodshed just as insurgents launched new attacks.
The Sunni Arab speaker said the new government that's forming would bring an end to the now hourly murders, kidnappings and roadside bombs. U.S. military officials are also hoping that the new Iraqi government will stem the violence. But in the meantime, they have been re-examining how to fight the war in Iraq by learning from mistakes made in the past, staging elaborate war games and encouraging officers to question the way things are done.
Much of that training is happening at Fort Leavenworth in Kansas under the command of Lt. General David Petraeus, one of the U.S. Army's most experienced officers when it comes to Iraq.
General Petraeus was the first commander of the Multi-National Security Transition Command-Iraq, and was charged with training Iraqi soldiers. Newsweek called him "Iraq's Repairman."
