The money question and non-answer:

It took three hearings before General David Petraeus finally got asked the most important question: Is the Iraq war, a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee inquired at Tuesday afternoon's session, "making America safer?" Petraeus, the commander of U.S. forces in Iraq, was uncharacteristically uncertain. "Sir," he said, "I don't know, actually." For many watching, that answer was a stark indictment of the Bush Administration's conduct of the war over the past four years, and the logic behind it.

Perhaps Petraeus is telling the truth after all. Just imagine if this question was asked to Bush, Cheney or Rice (hint: they would not have candidly answered "I don't know").