FIRST:  Bush tells the American people to wait for General Patraeus’s report so we can have an assessment of the situation in Iraq.  He says this repeatedly.

NEXT:  In the meantime. we get reports and data from the National Intelligence Estimate, the Government Accountability Office, the Congressional Research Service, the U.S. Embassy, and the Independent Commission on the Security Forces of Iraq, all of which point to very little security progress and no political progress in Iraq.  Bush tells the American people to wait for General Patraeus’s report so we can have an assessment of the situation in Iraq.  He says this repeatedly.

NEXT: We learn that Patraeus’s report won’t actually be written by Patraeus.  It will be written by the White House.

NEXT:  We learn that the White House will merely "tweak" Patreaus’s report.

NEXT:  Patreaus assures us that he will indeed be writing the report.

TODAY:  We learn that there actually won’t be a written report.