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WASHINGTON (AP) - Gen. David Petraeus went before Congress on Monday to deliver his long-awaited assessment of Iraq.

His long-awaited assessment? I thought Congress had tasked the president to make the report.

Petraeus was at a career-killing dead end job when Bush tapped him on the shoulder to do his bidding in Iraq.

From late 2005 through February 2007, Petraeus was serving as commanding general of Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, and the U.S. Army Combined Arms Center (CAC) located there. As commander of CAC, Petraeus was responsible for oversight of the Command and General Staff College and seventeen other schools, centers, and training programs as well as for development of the Army’s doctrinal manuals, training the Army’s officers, and supervising the Army’s center for the collection and dissemination of lessons learned.

Paper-pushing and shuffling at it's best... that was his job before Bush and he put their heads together.

In polls across the nation, Americans have been asked if Petraeus could be trusted to give a true and factual report of the situation in Iraq. In every poll, almost 55% of us said no.

Probably because we all know that Bush hand-picked him fo the job.

If it walks like a duck, looks like a duck and sounds like a duck, it's probably a duck.

And if it smells like crap and looks like crap, it's probably crap.