Is anyone surprised that the White House is going to brief the Iraq report

[eweaver155]

instead of Gen. David Peterus and Amb. Crocker? This has been the intent all along to initiate the surge in order to continue this war with no intentions of bringing the troops home until after Bush's exit. At this point, there are more troops in Iraq now than at the beginning of this war and the results are worsening. The insurgents bombing of Iraqi earlier this week, killing over 150 and wounding over 250, showcases insurgent strengthen resolve and the surge's ineffectiveness.

As usual, military generals are just pawns in the Bush/Chaney machine that get extended a carrot (in this case, Gen Peterus promotion to 4 star general), follow the doctrine, fail to accomplish the mission and get thrown under the bus. You would think that by now they would get the hint but it's really sad that they really don't have a choice since any resistance to orders will end their careers. They really don't have room for error. The White House, knowing the raw results of this report will be significantly negative, will "sanitize" it in order to sell it to us one more time in order to request more funding and increased troop levels for continuance of this fuck up. I expect Condi Rice and Sec. Gates to brief the results.

What will the Congress and Senate do? Roll over as usual? I hope not.

[MrSlayer]

1. Of course not.

Did anyone really think they wouldn't? They had to fire a number of generals and several others turned down the job before they found Petraeus who agreed with their strategy. He is a total puppet and they still don't trust him not to tell the truth. They trust no one because they think everyone is like them.

[AndyTiedye]

2. So Bush Will Lie to Us Some More, And Congress Will Cave Again…

…and more offers-that-can't-be-refused will be made,
and later we'll hear another chorus of Blue Dogs singing about how they belieeeeeve in Bush** and the surrrrrrge :puke:
and 171,000 troops will be the new "normal" until the next "surge".

[Ethelk2044]

3. The lies will continue on and on and on.......

[sampsonblk]

4. Where are all the pro-betrayal apologists now?

When Congress betrayed us 3 months ago, the DLC-type apologists flooded the board with messages about how we were all naive and either didn't understand politics or couldn't count (votes). Some of the dumbest arguments I have ever seen. If we were as smart as they are, we'd see how Pelosi and Reid had actually outsmarted Bush on this one. By September, Petreaus would make his report and the whole GOOP would defect to our cause.

Where the heck are those pro-betrayal apologists now?

[Jack Rabbit]

5. I figured there would be some kind of catch

Bush & Cheney leave nothing to chance. Allowing General Petraeus to write his own report and say what he really thinks was way too risky.

They'd rather a report be presented with no credibility as long as it included unrealistic, Pollyannaish assessments of progress made on the ground and on the political front. We all know the truth. The escalation of the war known as The Surge is a limited military success, but fundamentally unsustainable. The insurgents are mostly Iraqi and aren't going anywhere. Sooner or later American forces will have to stand down and them the insurgents will once again stand up. The elected government has become a roaring joke. During the Surge, the Sunnis left the government and a new government was formed excluding them. The White House report will no doubt call this reconciliation. After all, a particular dialect of Newspeak is the official language of all White House reports. Meanwhile, the Americans are fighting al Qaida Mesopotamia by buying off Sunni militias, who then not only use the weapons they receive from the Yanks to fight al Qaida but also to fight Shiites and government forces. That's the forces of the government the Bushies have backed, isn't it? As correspondent Michael Ware points out, this puts the US military in the awkward position of taking sides in a civil war. That is so preposterous that we can be sure that the neoconservatives must be behind it.

OK, congresscritters: stop funding and start impeaching. It's the only credible option left.