No Big Shifts Planned After Report on Iraq

First of all, duh. Of course Bush has no intention of changing the way he's doing business in Iraq. So what's the point of even having a report on Iraq? Its just a waste of time and money.

Despite political pressure for a change of course in Iraq, the White House hopes to keep in place its existing military strategy and troop levels there after the mid-September report from Army Gen. David H. Petraeus and Ambassador Ryan C. Crocker, administration officials said.

Even as the administration faced a new call this week from Sen. John W. Warner (R-Va.), a leading ally, to begin at least a symbolic withdrawal of troops by Christmas, White House officials said privately that they are not contemplating making major shifts before early next year. They said that next month's report is likely to highlight what they see as significant improvements in security over the past year and that they expect the president to assert that now is not the time to dramatically change approaches. [emphasis mine]

And as for that "...likely to highlight what they see as significant improvements in security..." bit, another duh. They're writing the damn thing. of course its gonna say exactly what they expect it to say and the words "quagmire", "failure", "mistake" won't be in it unless tied to Vietnam.

Via Washington Post.