As we all know by now, the Bu$h malAdministration has been writing the “found three ponies” report that Gen Petraeus and Ambassador Crocker will sign their names to.

You know how it will go, because we’ve been seeing reports like this since about, ooohhh…. 1964, I think.

Tunnel. Light. Bend in tunnel. Light. Lather. Rinse. Repeat.

Now there appears to be a sight problem in veracity, as the WaPo told us yesterday. Since the article and the various reports are based upon two mutually exclusive concepts (reality and Bu$hit) some emphases have been added in this article:

The House will hold hearings next week on two key reports assessing political and military conditions in Iraq, jump-starting the debate over President Bush's strategy even before long-awaited testimony by Army Gen. David H. Petraeus and U.S. Ambassador Ryan C. Crocker, due the following week.

A completed 70-page report by the Government Accountability Office, to be delivered to Congress next Tuesday, paints a bleak picture of prospects for Iraqi political reconciliation, according to administration officials who have seen it. The second report, by an independent commission of military experts, is being drafted. But a scorecard on the Iraqi security forces released yesterday by an adviser to the group concluded that the Iraqis are years away from taking over significant responsibility from U.S. combat forces.

An important point: Anthony Cordesman, who is one of those real Middle East and national security experts, unlike Michael O’Hanlon and Ken Pollack, painted a very bleak picture of our future in Iraq in his three recent reports on Iraq Force Development, Iraq’s Insurgency and Civil Violence, and The Tenuous Case for Strategic patience in Iraq. He is an adviser to this second commission and his observations may or may not be included in their report.

An oxygen-breathing biped can usually depend on truth from the GAO and the Congressional Research Service. Reports bearing the hoofprints of White House personnel must be read with the standard five-pound bag of salt.

The two reports -- and hearings on them in the House Foreign Affairs and Armed Services committees -- will set a largely negative backdrop for Petraeus, the top U.S. commander in Iraq, and Crocker, who are expected to testify together in a joint hearing before the two House committees and in a separate session in the Senate. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) has objected to a Pentagon proposal that they appear on Sept. 11, a Pelosi spokesman said, and the exact date remains under negotiation.

Administration officials said yesterday that the Petraeus-Crocker testimony will closely follow the National Intelligence Estimate judgments released last week, which predicted continued political deterioration in Iraq but cited "measurable but uneven improvements" in the security situation.

If you’re unfamiliar with the NIE, the official declassified portion can be found here. A wise man should probably remember that the really bad stuff has been excised, and what’s left will gleam like a 59 Dodge on a used car dealer’s lot. Think Progress gives a fine account of it here.

Bush continued his efforts to frame the debate yesterday [Sunday], congratulating Iraqi politicians on an agreement they announced Sunday in Baghdad. The accord reached by Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki and Sunni, Shiite and Kurdish representatives "reflects their commitment to work together for the benefit of all Iraqis," Bush said in a visit to Kirtland Air Force Base in New Mexico.

The agreement called for the release of thousands of detainees being held without charge, reform of a law barring members of Saddam Hussein's party from government jobs, regulation of the oil industry and provincial elections. Those elements are among a set of congressionally mandated benchmarks, and all require approval of Iraq's parliament. No details of the accord were released, [ed: IraqSlogger has published what it maintains is the full text of that agreement, translated into English] and Sunni politicians expressed skepticism yesterday that Maliki's Shiite-dominated government would push for enactment of the measures.

Big Media reports after Mr Bu$h’s VFW speech were almost overwhelmingly negative. (Scroll down) One might think people no longer believe the man when he says the sun rises in the East.

Knowledgeable observers believe that Mr Maliki’s five-party agreement is a very nice news-point, and the bases of the agreement will be forgotten right after the White House-written Petraeus/Crocker report is delivered to Congress. Reinforcing this belief is the fact that Mr Bu$h plans to deliver his own report to them, also. It is reliably believed that Mr Bu$h’s report will be typical: incredibly fraudulent, disgracefully over-the-top in its fake confidence, and abusively confrontational.

Just like the man himself.