Iraq Report Already In The Spin Cycle

The deadline is still a couple of weeks away. But the political fight over President Bush’s report to Congress on his “surge” strategy in Iraq is already in overdrive.

On Thursday, former Defense Secretary William Perry and other military experts sent a letter to congressional leaders, accusing the administration of misreporting the statistics in an effort to spin next month’s report.

The letter calls for “inquiry and attention into the exact nature and methodology that is being used to track the security situation in Iraq and specifically the assertions that sectarian violence is down.”