Armed Services Hearing on Gen. Jones Report

The Armed Services Committee is currently holding a hearing to receive testimony on the Independent Assessment of Iraqi Security Forces. General James Jones, USMC (ret), Chairman of the Independent Commission on the Security Forces of Iraq, will testify along with three other members of the Commission. The Commission's report (pdf) stated:

Perceptions and reality are frequently at odds with each other when trying to understand Iraq's problems and progress. Nowhere is this more apparent than in the impressions drawn from seeing our massive logistics "footprint," our many installations, and the number of personnel (military and civilian), especially in and around the Baghdad region. The unintended message conveyed is one of "permanence", an occupying force, as it were.

What is needed is the opposite impression, one that is lighter, less massive, and more expeditionary. [p. 128]

Watch the hearing live on C Span 3.