Undermining Petraeus

S.A. Miller writes in today's edition of the Washington Times that Democrats are already hard at work trying to undermine the credibility of General David Petraeus before he delivers his findings on the success of the " surge" next week. Miller says that Democrats will portray Petraeus as a " mouthpiece for Bush" who can't be trusted.

Several Democrats including Dick Durbin, Sen. -Illl. and Seate Majority Leader Harry Reid of Nevada as well as House Leader Nancy Pelosi of California hjave already referred to the coming report by Petraeus as " the Bush Report."

Republicans have raised skepticism by helping in the drafting of the report..and they decry the words of Democrats as " a preemptive strike." This is one area where there should be no room for partisanship and politic gamesmanship. Of course these things will take place however.

Pathetic happenings like Senator Chuck Schumer, Dem- N.Y coming out today and suggesting that gains in Iraq were not due to the hard work of our troops and were mostly attributable to
Iraqis growing tired of the insurgency and taking matters into their own hands and fighting for themselves are abominable politics and yet should give us hope that there will be a day when they can defend their own country.

The White House should stay out of the drafting of a report like this. Maybe the American people will soon grow tired of all these shenanigans and throw all the bums out. Now that will be a day to look forward to.