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Next week on Monday General Patraeus (dragon naturally speaking transcribed his name as 'betray us') will go to Washington and give his report of the surge in Iraq. According to the media, it's highly expected that he will provide a fairly honest appraisal of the situation even though it will probably be fairly upbeat.

He seems to be a straight shooter for the most part and even more so a can-do type of person. He seems to want to make things happen and he seems to be the type of person that does make things happen. The challenge here is that he's trying to make things happen in an area of the world that is extremely troubled and very much out of control on many levels.

He may have been the right person for the job a couple of years ago, unfortunately he got the job a little too late and as such the politics of the situation are excruciating.

Regardless of what happens or what he reports, it is almost certain that the Democrats and the Republicans will fight over his answers and try and use his answers to further their own political goals. At this point both parties are basically sitting on their bar stools like a couple of drunks refusing to see logic from any perspective or quarter. Therefore, its almost a sure bet that both parties will here just what they want to here to advance their next drunken argument.