It appears the administration may be looking for options which will not only prolong US involvement in Iraq but more to the point, so confuse Congress they will once again be helpless to do anything.
General’s Report on Iraq Progress Has Competition
By DAVID E. SANGER and THOM SHANKER

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But even before he composes the first sentences of the report, to be written with the new American ambassador in Baghdad, Ryan C. Crocker, the administration is commissioning other assessments that could dilute its findings about the impact of the current troop increase.

I guess there is no hope of holding these characters accountable.

ignorance is the enemy
without equality there is no liberty
America can survive bad policy, but not destruction of our Democratic institutions