Iraq: Change in Command

What is General David Petraeus going to tell Bush that is different from what Generals Casey and Abizaid have been telling him? In any case, they're gone. Petraeus (A Princeton Ph.D.) will replace Casey as Commander of the International Forces in Iraq and Admiral William J. Fallon (who graduated from the same Catholic college as my Dad) will replace Abizaid at CENTCOM.

So are we to assume that Casey and Abizaid were fired for opposing the so-called "surge option"? They can't be dumb: Abizaid is Harvard and Casey is Georgetown. It's certain that George W. Bush is repositioning his pieces on the game board, but I really have no clue of what's in store, other than possibly going after Sadr, who went to Najaf U.

In any case, what's the point of sending in good people to do something that will end up bad, no matter how they perform their mission? Remember World Bank President Wolfensohn? Bush sent him to Palestine as High Quartet Commissioner and after a few months, he admitted the intractability of the crisis and quit. He was thanked by no one.