Yes, but they are commenting on themselves and on how they have done in their respective jobs. They didn't comment on the wisdom of the enterprise. (i.e. why the fuck are we there in the first place?)

Also, Petraeus talked of the apparent attacks from in Iran on multiple fronts in Iraq as if we didn't bring those attacks upon ourselves. What nobody seems to be talking about is that his report is essentially a call to war against Iran. The General seemed pretty hellbent on the notion of attacking Iran...

I'd rather hear Fred Kaplan's take.

The video is here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9lz-PxpPGXo

this is from fdl:

While many in the media would like to unquestioningly accept the White House narrative that General David Petraeus walks on water and that all of his claims about progress in Iraq are undoubtedly true, the fact is that Petraeus has a history of extremely bad judgment with regard to the war. In the above video, Glenn Greenwald outlines many of Petraeus’s flawed assessments that have caused fellow military officers to dub him “General Betray Us.”

Adding to suspicions, the report - based on recommendations by Petraeus and Ryan Crocker, the US ambassador to Iraq - will be written by White House staff.

If this is true, then the general has more to worry about than dissension in the ranks of his command. It would mean that he lied before Congress in his opening remarks:

At the outset, I would like to note that this is my testimony.  Although I have briefed my  assessment and recommendations to my chain of command, I wrote this testimony myself.  It has  not been cleared by, nor shared with, anyone in the Pentagon, the White House, or Congress.   

Feel free to doubt him, but as Fred Kagan says in that same article you link to, Ali, if Petraeus is politically ambitious and if he's over-reliant on being the president's belligerent errand boy, then if the surge fails, he'll have tied a millstone around his neck.

I don't quite see anything in his history as a strategist or commander to indicate he'd be that foolish. I may be wrong. 

Tom Lantos made a fool out of himself. I am normally a Lantos fan, but he fell on his face publically. It will increase his vulnerability to challenge in the next election