Silly games.

Geez.

I, like everyone else, will have to wait for September's report from Gen. Petraeus before making more definitive judgments. But I know for certain that three things are different in Iraq now from any other time I've seen it.

Is there anyone on the planet that doesn't know what Petraeus is going to say in three weeks? My super-duper secret source inside the Pentagon tells me it's going to be something like this:

"The security situation in Iraq is improving, but we need more time."

Now can we move on?