That September report from Gen. David Petraeus? The one that he won't actually be writing? If the White House has its way, he won't be talking about it either, at least not in public.

Bush administration officials have told the Los Angeles Times that the White House, not Petraeus, will be writing the Petraeus report on Iraq. Now senior congressional aides are telling the Washington Post that the White House wants Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and Secretary of Defense Robert Gates to present the report to Congress. Under a White House proposal, Petraeus and US ambassador to Iraq Ryan Crocker -- long billed as the authors of the September assessment -- would discuss the report only in private.

The Xinhua news agency didn't say how Zheng was killed, but most Chinese executions are carried out with a single gunshot to the back of the head. Shortly afterward a policeman notifies the condemned man's family by presenting them with a bill for the cost of the bullet.

Now that's accountability. Can we import some of that too?

Karl Rove could put fecal matter on his lapel and call it a boutonniere. Goodbye and good riddance.

Bye bye MC Rove.