by Jeff Davis

The very day that General Petraeus is delivering his report on the Iraq War to America, a recent news story reports that nine soldiers died today in Iraq, but the military claims seven of those soldiers were killed in a “vehicle accident.” Given the incredible level of dishonesty we’ve been subjected to by Bush and the neocons, one wonders if a vehicle being destroyed by a roadside bomb is now classified as a “traffic accident.”

The bottom line is that dozens and sometimes hundreds of Iraqis are killed every day in Iraq by the ongoing civil war. Our soldiers are killed on a regular basis by ordinary Iraqis who don’t want us occupying their land, and there’s no end to the war in sight. In fact, the neocons are trying to expand the war. They have begun a campaign of lies, claiming that Iran is sending arms to the Iraqi rebels. If we stay in Iraq, the neocons will keep lying, claiming that Iran is killing our soldiers and that we should go to war with Iran too.

The report by General Petraeus has been given a ridiculous amount of spin and attention. Petraeus is just one of many generals working for George W. Bush. Bush has a reputation for pushing into retirement any generals who try to tell the truth. (Just ask General Shinseki.) Needless to say, the Petraeus report could hardly be anything but more smoke and mirrors from the Bush regime.

A Breitbart article reports Petraeus as “stopping well short of promising victory but asking the nation to give escalation a chance.” WE JUST GAVE ESCALATION A CHANCE; IT DIDN’T WORK! General Petraeus said exactly what Bush appointed him to say, as if we didn’t know all this eight months ago.

The Democrats’ linguini-spined performance over the past nine months has enabled George Bush and the neocons to keep our troops in the Iraqi meat-grinder. The Democrats were given a majority in 2006 by the American people to do two things: The first was to end the Iraq War. The second was to impeach Bush and Cheney if they refused to end the war. Instead of cutting funds for the war and forcing Bush to bring home the troops, the Dems have fully funded a troop escalation, doing exactly the opposite of what the American people wanted. On top of continuing and expanding the war, Congress has handed Bush and his neocon collaborators the power to do warrantless wiretaps

Breitbart continues: “‘He’s one of the best,’ said Democratic Rep. Ike Skelton of Missouri, who ran proceedings in the ornate hearing room and ordered a succession of protesters ejected when they shouted their anger at the war.” Way to cater to the Democrat base there, Ike!

I won’t get into what the four-star sock puppet said. It’s crap, and everybody outside the Congress of the United States and a few warmonger talk show hosts, know it’s crap.

The whole point of the Petreaus Report is simply to play for time. George W. Bush can now run out the clock without being forced to clean up the appalling mess he’s made in Iraq. That’s assuming Bush’s successor wants to leave Iraq. Seems like the Israeli Lobby is making the ultimate decision on whether we keep squandering 1,000 lives per year in Iraq.

Another thing to consider is that another 911-style attack perpetrated by rogue elements of our government or the MOSSAD may take place before the 2008 election. If this happens, Bush and Cheney could wind up permanent dictators. The neocons realize that the public is turning against them, and their solution may be to simply get rid of those pesky elections.

Bush is laughing at us all. He’s laughing at the impotent Democrat majority in Congress, which takes its marching orders from the Israeli Lobby, which wants the Iraq War to continue and a war on Iran to start. Bush is standing on top of a burning oil tank screaming “I’m on top of the world, Ma!” like some demented James Cagney character, and we’re all about to burn up in a fireball started by a madman.