Credibility test?

Tomorrow is the day that General Petraeus and Ambassador Crocker appear before the Senate Armed Services Committee with the promised report on the surge effects in Iraq.

How can anyone expect to hear anything other than the administration's propaganda? Both men are beholden to the President. Wouldn't it be amazing if they suddenly embraced the Constitution and held themselves liable to it instead of their boss.

In spite of what appeared to be media control - diverted to the campaigns-facts have a nasty habit of eventually breaking through the fog of war. Even though embedding journalists was highly controlled and ground events served to reinforce the restrictions, there is no way that anyone with a few brain cells still functioning can't fairly easily find much to bring dismay over the actual circumstances of ordinary citizens trying to survive the havoc that has destroyed their lives, homes, professions, job market, social networking, schools, utilities services, medical treatment, just about every facet of existence you can think of. For many this has meant total displacement within their country or temporary refugee status, in a disaster of mammoth proportions.

It will be interesting how much of that will be touched on in the testimony coming up.

Meanwhile, I still suggest you find some Iraqi residents that are still occasionally able to make entries into their personal blogs. See the events through others eyes and not those whose careers are at the whim of the C-I-C -- will either of them have a Fallon moment?


graysmoke