CNN: Petraeus Returning To D.C. For Meeting With Obama Tomorrow

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Petraeus returning for Obama meeting Wednesday
Posted: 08:56 AM ET

From CNN Pentagon Correspondent Barbara Starr


WASHINGTON (CNN) — CNN has learned Gen. David Petraeus is returning to Washington to attend the meeting President Barack Obama is planning to have Wednesday with the Joint Chiefs and his wartime commanders.

That meeting is expected to involve discussion of troop levels in Iraq and Afghanistan and the new president is expected to tell commanders he wants them to plan to have combat forces out of Iraq in sixteen months– as he promised in the election campaign.

Petreaus will have just arrived from Afghanistan and Pakistan and is expected to brief Obama on the latest developments in that troubled region.