Political Bloviation

So the report will come from the White House. All the pronouncements about following the recommendations of Gen. Petraeus are just more bullshit from the White House. Who wants to bet that the mainstream press will ignore that tiny little point when September rolls around? How long will the American people put up with being manipulated and lied to?

Top general may propose pullbacks - Los Angeles Times
Administration and military officials acknowledge that the September report will not show any significant progress on the political benchmarks laid out by Congress. How to deal in the report with the lack of national reconciliation between Iraq’s warring sects has created some tension within the White House.

Despite Bush’s repeated statements that the report will reflect evaluations by Petraeus and Ryan Crocker, the U.S. ambassador to Iraq, administration officials said it would actually be written by the White House, with inputs from officials throughout the government.

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