Who’s report is it anyway?

Set your faces to stun, because I know dishonesty on the part of the Bush administration will come as a surprise.

Despite Bush’s repeated statements that the report will reflect evaluations by Petraeus and Ryan Crocker, the U.S. ambassador to Iraq, administration officials said it would actually be written by the White House, with inputs from officials throughout the government.

It’s called “controlling the message.” There was no way the Bush administration was going to say its Iraq policy depends on Gen. Petraeus’ report without already knowing what that report is going to say.

The Bush administration might look the other way at urgent warnings of imminent attacks, but when it comes to PR, little is left to chance.