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Read Iraq: The People's Report

No report from Petraeus (Cheney), thorough or incomplete, honest or fraudulent could justify the continuation of an illegal occupation, one that the American people voted to end over 10 months ago. Were violence in Iraq really down, that would be a reason to end the occupation. That violence is actually up is also a reason to end the occupation.

But a fraudulent report bearing the president's signature, if intended to mislead Congress, constitutes a felony and an impeachable offense.

Click to Tell Congress they must impeach Bush and Cheney if the Petraeus Report is fraudulent.

Read Our Questions for Petraeus

The "Petraeus" report is a report from the president. The Los Angeles Times reported on August 15, 2007:

"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. And though Petraeus and Crocker will present their recommendations on Capitol Hill, legislation passed by Congress leaves it to the president to decide how to interpret the report's data."

The Betray Us Report is expected to contradict a recent Government Accounting Office Report, the GAO Report itself having been watered down by the Pentagon.

Petraeus already imposed happier conclusions on a National Intelligence Estimate, and argued that al Qaeda is “public enemy number one” in Iraq, even though the Congressional Research Service says that attacks from al Qaeda are only a small percentage of the violence in Iraq, criticizing the Bush administration for increased use of false claims about AQI since the “surge” began.

The Associated Press reports twice the death rate from war in Iraq this year over last year. The death rate is also up sharply for U.S. troops in Iraq.

Petraeus' expected claims of reduced violence in Iraq are disputed by so many experts and reports that even the Washington Post takes notice.

The "surge" failed to achieve political reconciliation. In fact, the Congressional Research Service says the puppet government is near collapse.

More of the evidence Petraeus is expected to contradict is found in Key Questions on the White House Report and Petraeus-Crocker Testimony By John Podesta, Lawrence J. Korb, Brian Katulis

A preview of the Betray Us Report may be found in Petraeus' September 7th letter to troops.

UPDATE September 7, 2007: We are now told there will be no written report. Producers and editors should immediately ban the word Petraeus and not go within a mile of his testimony, but they won't. Congress should demand his report or send him packing, but it won't.

UPDATE September 8, 2007: Some Democrats, amazingly, have begun preemptively expressing skepticism (albeit without dismissing the whole stupid process and committing to end the occupation).

UPDATE September 10-11, 2007: Here's our report on the testimony.

UPDATE September 13, 2007: Post testimony and media blitz, we now know that Petraeus presented his brief, predictable, dishonest testimony as a "report," but made no report addressing the required "benchmarks." Bush has a deadline of September 15th to produce the report required by law, or else... well, or else nothing; Congress took that part out of the bill in May. In other news, we learn that Admiral William Fallon considers Petraeus "an ass-kissing little chickenshit" and that Petraeus hopes to run for President.

UPDATE September 14, 2007: Bush gave a grossly dishonest speech last night, a fact that many media reports and headlines failed to pick up on. He apparently expected everyone to forget what he'd promised in January. And most media outlets did so, but in a stunning break with tradition, the Associated Press and the Washington Post joined with more respectable outlets like Foreign Policy in Focus in providing actual journalistic reporting on some of Bush's lies. Bush is producing the required report today, and it will pretty clearly announce total failure. Of course, it doesn't matter as long as the Democrats pretend they have to override a veto to end the occupation. The media makes this false claim repeatedly, as do Congress Members. Some Congress Members are at least taking a stand for a semi-decent bill to end the occupation in 16 months, which will be vetoed, after which perhaps Congressional leaders will finally admit that the way to end the occupation is to announce that they won't vote on any more bills to fund it.

UPDATE September 14, 2007: Here's the report.