This weekend we learned that Gen. Petraeus’ Report will actually be written by the White House. Now it turns out that the White House is pushing to have the general’s increasingly nominal report delivered by Condi Rice and Bob Gates, with Petraeus relegated to a “private congressional briefing.”
The Democrats on the Hill appear to be saying, No, this isn’t going to be like a has-been 60s band touring under its founders name twenty years after the guy dropped out and went to live in an Ashram. We actually want to hear from Gen. Petraeus.
And the oddest part of the article in the Post reporting this is that the authors claim, “The skirmishing is an indication of the rising anxiety on all sides in the remaining few weeks before the presentation of what is widely considered a make-or-break assessment of Bush’s war strategy.” (emphasis added)
Perhaps I’m missing something. But doesn’t this sound like the anxiety is a little more pronounced on the White House side since they’re the ones trying to bag on the report that has been the building focus of our Iraq policy for months now?
