One too many? Try a lot more than that. And here I though "win just oen more for the Gipper" was overused.

Sept, 11? What possible cynical political theater incentives could they possibly have for choosing that date?

And of course, the cameras will be aimed high by the mainstream press to avoid facing the reality that the emperor has no clothes...

I think a few direct questions about whether Iraq had anything to do with 9/11 might actually be a good thing.

2/3 of the country has long since tuned out this administration because they have zero credibility and this is yet another administration report.

It's only Congress that keeps believing in magic ponies and progress in Iraq. Arming Sunni militias isn't really progress when your chief aim is trying to get the Shia alliance to compromise. And the Anbar project is separate from the surge as I understand it.

There are plenty of open source public reports that show Iraq to be a disaster. This entire exercise has been a sad exercise of kicking the can down the road until Bush is out of office. The troop reductions post-surge that are mandated by the size of our overall force and length of deployments will be portrayed as a drawdown because of progress. At the end of the exercise we'll have as many troops in Iraq in 2008 as we had in 2006 when Democrats were elected to change policy in Iraq and we'll have a whole lot more dead people.

If they keep it on 9/11, we should have a goddamn read-in of My Pet Goat on the steps of the Capitol during Petraeus's testimony.

And I believe O'Hanlon's title is no longer "foreign policy expert" but "whore for Bush-war."

(with apologies to sex workers for associating them with such a duplicitous tool)

I think a few direct questions about whether Iraq had anything to do with 9/11 might actually be a good thing.

And exactly who do you think will be asking those direct questions?

I would confront Petraeus with the fact that he is a political tool.

Ask if he understands that his credibility is almost zero because he is allowing himself to be used by Bush/Cheney. If he denies it, ask him if he thinks it's a coincidence that he is testifying on September 11. Ask him if it's true that the White House wrote his report. Ask him which persons had any input on his report. Ask him the number of communications he had with the White House concerning this report.

I would go on for an hour or so with this line of questioning.

And exactly who do you think will be asking those direct questions?

Good point.

Not only is it on September 11th, but the 11th is on a Tuesday this year. Same day of the week as in 2001. Lord, I hope it rains on the East Coast. Something to make it seem like it is not the same day come round again.

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