{"id":143,"date":"2007-08-17T04:46:25","date_gmt":"2007-08-17T08:46:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/2007\/08\/17\/why-is-general-petraeus-letting-the-white-house-write-his-iraq-progress-report-poll\/"},"modified":"2007-08-17T04:54:51","modified_gmt":"2007-08-17T08:54:51","slug":"why-is-general-petraeus-letting-the-white-house-write-his-iraq-progress-report-poll","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/2007\/08\/17\/why-is-general-petraeus-letting-the-white-house-write-his-iraq-progress-report-poll\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Is General Petraeus Letting The White House Write His Iraq Progress Report? (Poll)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Do you think the long-awaited General David H. Petraeus’s Iraq surge report will “see” as much “tangible progress” as Petraeus claimed to see in the election-influencing op ed he wrote for the Washington Post\u00a0back on September 26, 2004?<\/a><\/p>\n

Will it be a “clear-eyed report from a top general”<\/a> accurately assessing\u00a0military progress?\u00a0 A report that even approaches the honest document Bush promised in order to\u00a0buy himself a lot more time?\u00a0<\/p>\n

Hahahahaha!<\/p>\n

Anyone who nurtured even the slightest fantasy that the Petraeus assessment would be the real deal, now must surely know otherwise:<\/a><\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

And though Petraeus and Crocker will present their recommendations on Capitol Hill, legislation passed by Congress leaves it to the president to decide how to interpret the report’s data.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

So why is Petraeus sacrificing what little remains of his integrity by letting the White House author his report?\u00a0 Yes, you guessed it — it’s time for another poll:<\/p>\n

{democracy:9}<\/div>\n

(You can catch up with my previous polls here.<\/a>\u00a0And check out\u00a0Petraeus’ Report To Be Cribbed From … ‘Monarch Notes’.<\/a>)[tags]General David Petraeus, Petraeus Iraq Surge Report, George Bush, Tangible Progress, Petraeus Poll[\/tags]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Do you think the long-awaited General David H. Petraeus’s Iraq surge report will “see” as much “tangible progress” as Petraeus claimed to see in the election-influencing op ed he wrote for the Washington Post\u00a0back on September 26, 2004? Will it be a “clear-eyed report from a top general” accurately assessing\u00a0military progress?\u00a0 A report that even […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38,100,8,20,19,3,90,9,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-143","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-foreign-policy","category-general-petraeus","category-george-bush","category-gop-humor","category-iraq-war","category-politics","category-polls","category-republicans","category-white-house"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=143"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}