Whose Report Is It, Anyway?
Washington Post
By Dan Froomkin
Special to washingtonpost.com
Thursday, August 16, 2007; 12:26 PM
The "Petraeus Report" -- the supposedly trustworthy mid-September reckoning of military and political progress in Iraq by Army Gen. David H. Petraeus and Ambassador Ryan C. Crocker -- is instead looking more like a White House con job in the making.
The Bush administration has been trying for months to restore its credibility on Iraq (as well as stall for time) by focusing on Petraeus -- President Bush's "main man" in Iraq -- and his report to Congress. But now it turns out it that White House aides will actually write the "Petraeus Report," not the general himself.
And although Petraeus has a long history of literally and figuratively playing the good soldier for Bush, it appears that the president still doesn't trust him enough to stay on message under the congressional klieg lights.
Julian E. Barnes and Peter Spiegel wrote in yesterday's Los Angeles Times: "Despite Bush's repeated statements that the report will reflect evaluations by Petraeus and Ryan Crocker, the U.S.
Word on the street has it that the "Betrayus-Crock-of-shit" report isn't going to be written, just testimony by these two shills before Congress.
ReplyDeleteWhole lotta heavy karma being laid down here G:!
I think Bush works for PNAC and Yep, Karma is a beatch!
ReplyDeleteGeneral Betrayus, LOL...And I thought Colin had a perfect name. At least the dirty old Colin was a four star general.
ReplyDeleteBu$h has bad karma, but the generals, with superior intelligence will be knowing some horrible haps for the next eternity or so...G: