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They're discounting it because they know it's going to contain things that they don't want to hear:  That progress is being made in Iraq and that enough progress has been made to warrant more time.

What's worse is that they haven't even SEEN the fucking thing and they are already discounting it.  Why?  Because they're trying to do a preemptive strike against the President and undermine the war in Iraq.

"The Bush report?" Senate Majority Whip Richard J. Durbin said when asked about the upcoming report from Gen. Petraeus, U.S. commander in Iraq.

"We know what is going to be in it. It's clear. I think the president's trip over to Iraq makes it very obvious," the Illinois Democrat said. "I expect the Bush report to say, 'The surge is working. Let's have more of the same.' "

The top Democrats — Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid of Nevada and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi of California — also referred to the general's briefing as the "Bush report."

They are calling it the Bush report because they are trying to get American's who don't have a clue about how this report is going to be made, tricked into thinking that it's all a White House washout.  Bush couldn't claim progress if Petraeus isn't claiming progress.  General Petraeus is scheduled to testify before Congress about the progress in Iraq.  Any discrepancy between what he says to them and what Bush says in the report will be torn apart within hours.

These people have made up their mind already about the war in Iraq and have lied to the American people.  They trusted General Petraeus to deliver an honest report in September about the progress or lack thereof in Iraq.  Now that they have a gist of what's going to be in it, they don't like it and now are trying to undermine the credibility of a four star General.

That reeks of playing politics with the lives of our soldiers in Iraq.  General Petraeus has already said that we can probably maintain the same amount of security with less forces within a few months if things look good.  That's counter to what Democrats say that Bush wants.  So if we can do the same with less, then that's what we should do.  We should trust the guy who knows counterinsurgency like the back of his hand instead of trying to force their own naive views upon the military.

Democrats said they put more faith in a report Tuesday by the Government Accountability Office that showed Iraq failed to meet 11 of 18 political and security benchmarks set by Congress.

Ok, then let's go with that.  11 out of 18 failed to be met so far.  That means that 7 have been or are close to being done.  So you're willing to bail out when they're almost 1/2 way done with those benchmarks?  Democrats love to talk about soldiers dying for nothing, but they won't tell you that if they pull out of Iraq like they want to and Iraq spirals out of control, those who've fought and died to achieve what we have done so far will indeed be for nothing.

"We will see what the Bush report will be at the end of next week," Mrs. Pelosi said. "The facts are self-evident that the progress is not being made. They might want to find one or two places where there has been progress but the plural of anecdote is not data."

She said Democrats were determined to uncover "the ground truth in Iraq."

Even one of their own, Representative Brian Baird agrees that we should stay a little longer until they get back on their feet.  He voted originally against the Iraq war.  What do Democrats do about that?  They try to run smear campaigns against him and discount his own findings.  He went to Iraq and specifically asked to go into areas and get the full picture, not a "dog and pony show".  But other Democrats didn't like that he came to a conclusion that differs from their own.

That's playing politics with soldiers lives and the lives of Iraqi civilians.

So go ahead, discount General Petraeus, you're only showing yourselves to be petty and weak when you don't get your way. 

Travis

travis@rightwinglunatic.com

Labels: Democrats, General Petraeus, iraq, Politics

# posted by Travis @ 1:05 PM