President Bush visits Iraq

From The Washington Post:

AL ASAD AIRBASE, Anbar Province, Iraq, Sept. 3 -- On the eve of major administration decisions on U.S. strategy in Iraq, President Bush, Defense Secretary Robert Gates, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and top U.S. military leaders including the senior U.S. commander in Iraq, Army Gen. David Petreaus, arrived here Monday on a surprise visit for a series of unprecedented meetings with top Iraqi leaders and Sunni tribal sheiks in Anbar Province, where progress has dramatically lowered attacks in what a year ago was Iraq's most violent region.

Bush -- along with Gates, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Peter Pace and U.S. Middle East commander Adm. William Fallon -- will meet first with Petraeus and U.S. Ambassador Ryan Crocker, and then with Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki and other senior Iraqi leaders and Anbar tribal sheiks.

"This will be the last big gathering of the president's advisors and Iraqi leaders before the president makes his decisions on the way forward," said Geoff Morrell, Pentagon spokesperson. "He's assembled his war council, and they are all convening with Iraqi leaders to discuss the way forward."

Bush visits Iraq in order to meet personaly with Iraqi leaders and see with his own eyes what the situation is on the ground over there.

How long do you suppose it will be before outraged congressional Democrats hold hearings and demand investigations?