WTF Is It Now?!?

"A continuation of the same old mendacity"
Dan Froomkin is all over this latest stinkfest by the lying crooks in the White House:

The "Petraeus Report" -- the supposedly trustworthy mid-September reckoning of military and political progress in Iraq by Army Gen. David Petraeus and Ambassador Ryan Crocker -- is instead looking more like a White House con job in the making.

The Bush administration has been trying for months to restore its credibility on Iraq (as well as stall for time) by focusing on Petraeus -- President Bush's "main man" in Iraq -- and his report to Congress. But now it turns out it that White House aides will actually write the "Petraeus Report," not the general himself...

Even Tweety gets his nose out of Fred Thompson's armpits long enough to realize this doesn't smell good:

Is the White House going to pull a Lucy again? With the football trick, all over again? For months President Bush has been asking us to wait for a report from General Petraeus. How many times have we heard that phrase? “Wait for the report from General Petraeus.” Now we learn that the White House is going to write that report - the White House - and that the General will testify publicly before Congress only after the report’s been written by Bush’s people. Is this a sign of something we’ve seen before, is the Bush administration going to politicize that critical September report instead of letting the General deliver a full and honest raw assessment to the American people? It looks like it.

Meanwhile, the White House is denying that they're denying Petraeus and Crocker the opportunity to testify in open session.

Bonus: a new poll by CNN shows that a majority of America-haters already don't trust the upcoming report by the Army's top commander in Iraq White House.