Now I'm not one to call out Preznit Ever-Lying on his inability to tell the truth to anyone, you all know me. I love the man. Respect him even. But this is too much, he said that he'd have General Petraeus go to Congress and testify about the sitch in Eye-rack. He did. He really really did. Now it looks like he may be backtracking. Oh, the humanity!

Senior congressional aides said yesterday that the White House has proposed limiting the much-anticipated appearance on Capitol Hill next month of Gen. David H. Petraeus and Ambassador Ryan C. Crocker to a private congressional briefing, suggesting instead that the Bush administration's progress report on the Iraq war should be delivered to Congress by the secretaries of state and defense.
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But both the White House and Congress have widely described the assessment as coming from Petraeus. Bush has repeatedly referred to the general as the one who will be delivering the report in September and has implored the public and Republicans in Congress to withhold judgment until then. In an interim assessment last month, the White House said that significant progress has been shown in fewer than half of the 18 political and security benchmarks outlined in the legislation.

I have it on good authority that after GEN Petraeus testifies, there will be a "Mission Accomplished" ceremony on the White House Lawn in the shadow of the White House AAA installed by His Excellency Dick to keep himself and his kinky brood safe while visiting his puppet and plaything, Our Beloved Preznit.