The Red Brick Times

Remember the "September Report" by General Petraeus? Y'know, the one Bush (or to be more accurate, whatever neocon team manages him these days) said to wait for?

From the LA Times: 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.

How much more can we take? These people have 17 months left! Plenty of time to start a war with Iran.
Posted 5:03 PM by whatley (3) comments

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FYI: The above quote is about half way down on page two of the linked LA Times article.

# posted by  whatley : August 15, 2007 5:47 PM
 
Update: Now they're trying to avoid having Petraeus and Crocker speak in public at all. From The Washington Post:

"Senior congressional aides said yesterday that the White House has proposed limiting the much-anticipated appearance on Capitol Hill next month of Gen. David H. Petraeus and Ambassador Ryan C. Crocker to a private congressional briefing, suggesting instead that the Bush administration's progress report on the Iraq war should be delivered to Congress by the secretaries of state and defense."

# posted by  whatley : August 16, 2007 9:04 AM
 
These guys are going to get their ass handed to them by Congressional Republicans if they pull any weird shit the September report given the time and political capital they have invested in urging the patience to wait for it. It has been sold as General Petraeus' report by everyone from the top down. These guys have to get re-elected in 12 months Bush doesn't. Cornered rats will eat their own kind.

Bush can bomb Iran but he can't pursue a war there because he has no troops to use. If he bombs population centers the U.N. and NATO will turn on him. If he bombs nuclear or military targets the Iranian and Syrian Armies will invade Iraq while the Turks take the opportunity to munch up the Kurds in the north.

None of which includes the very real possibility of the Kurds commencing a complete ethnic cleansing of Sunni's from Mosul, Kirkuk and everything that connects them after yesterday's bombing. The Kurdish Peshmerga are the best trained and (American) equipped military units in Iraq. If they break away from U.S. control all bets are off in the north.

Have a nice day!

# posted by  A. O. : August 16, 2007 10:51 AM
 
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