Menurut laporan itu tangki pemikir Bagdad itu, kelompok perwira dan pakar tandingan pemberontakan pilihan Petraeus, memperingatkan bahwa keadaan di Irak memburuk dan tentara Amerika Serikat dapat menghadapi kemungkinan penarikan memalukan.
According to the reports, the so-called Baghdad brains trust, a group of officers and counter-insurgency experts hand-picked by Petraeus, has warned that the situation in Iraq was deteriorating and that US troops could face the prospect of a humiliating withdrawal.