WASHINGTON - The White House is pushing hard to buy time for its Iraq strategy, offering Congress unusual access to President Bush's top military and diplomatic advisers.
About 200 lawmakers were invited to the Pentagon for a classified question-and-answer session on Thursday with Gen. David Petraeus, the top U.S. commander in Iraq, and Ryan Crocker, the U.S. ambassador there. The two men were expected to brief lawmakers via satellite from Baghdad.
Bush's new war adviser, Lt. Gen. Douglas Lute, also was to be in the room.
Later in the day, Crocker was scheduled to testify publicly before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, also by video link.
The …
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