Oh, those wacky liberals

I might be wrong. The anti-war surrender monkey's attack seems to be to discredit the September report by Petraeus and Crocker and not that political progress is slow in coming from the Iraqi government. The left is all up in arms because the report is going to come from the White House, and not from Petreaus and Crocker directly. They seem to believe that this means that Bush intercepting the report so he can "taint" it.

The MANDATE congress installed in the Iraq Accountability act of 2007 was for the President to meet with Petreaus and Crocker, and then report to Congress on the findings. That's exactly what he's going to do. The lefties are acting like this is some abuse of power thing. What are the odds they'd be just as upset if he didn't do what they mandated in February? I'd say even money.

Wake up America is all over it.

• Let me show you and Hat Tip to Influence Peddler because it was taking me forever to go through each and every word of H.R.2206,U.S. Troop Readiness, Veterans' Care, Katrina Recovery, and Iraq Accountability Appropriations Act, 2007 (Engrossed Amendment as Agreed to by House), to find the portion I had saw when the bill was first passed.
  
  From the Influence Peddler:
  
  

  It's also worth looking at exactly what Congress has required for September 15. I've written on it before. Here's what Congress passed, and the President signed:
  

  (A) The President shall submit an initial report, in classified and unclassified format, to the Congress, not later than July 15, 2007, assessing the status of each of the specific benchmarks established above, and declaring, in his judgment, whether satisfactory progress toward meeting these benchmarks is, or is not, being achieved.
  
  (B) The President, having consulted with the Secretary of State, the Secretary of Defense, the Commander, Multi-National Forces Iraq, the United States Ambassador to Iraq, and the Commander of U.S. Central Command, will prepare the report and submit the report to Congress.
  
  (C) If the President’s assessment of any of the specific benchmarks established above is unsatisfactory, the President shall include in that report a description of such revisions to the political, economic, regional, and military components of the strategy, as announced by the President on January 10, 2007. In addition, the President shall include in the report, the advisability of implementing such aspects of the bipartisan Iraq Study Group, as he deems appropriate.
  
  (D) The President shall submit a second report to the Congress, not later than September 15, 2007, following the same procedures and criteria outlined above.

So, fingers in their ears and saying "nanananana" will be how good news from Iraq will be handled.