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Clinton, McCain, Obama question Gen. Petraeus

Gen. David Petraeus stepped into the crossfire of presidential politics on Capitol Hill Tuesday as Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama attacked his plan to indefinitely suspend troop reductions this summer.

John McCain, the presumptive Republican nominee and a supporter of the war, was considerably more gentle in his questioning of Petraeus and Ryan Crocker, the U.S. ambassador to Iraq, during...

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