Ignore the Iraqi Governance Progress Report?

From the BBC:

"Mr Bush asked the US to look beyond this week's upcoming status report on Iraq - an assessment of Iraqi progress toward meeting political and military objectives, which will be delivered to Congress on Thursday or Friday.

"I believe that it is in this nation's interests to give the commander a chance to fully implement his operations and I believe Congress ought to wait for General Petraeus to come back and give his assessment of the strategy that he is putting in place before they make any decisions," Mr Bush said."

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If we're supposed to "look beyond" the Iraqi government status report, then what's the point of the report? We're supposed to just forget about it and wait patiently for change? We're not supposed to use the report to assess our strategy?

He's directing us to ignore the facts! It's worked for the White House, but hopefully the American people aren't that easy to blindfold.