What's Petraeus going to report in September? Kerry called it during the funding vote.

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What's Petraeus going to report given the news and the http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=389&topic_id=1591972&mesg_id=1591972">outlook for Iraq?

From the LA Times:

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.

This allows the president to certify whatever the president wants, to waive whatever the president wants. And I promise to my colleagues, we will be back here in September having the same debate with the same benchmark questions and they will not have moved in their accountability. -- John Kerry

We don’t have to wait until September to know that we need a new policy.