Blitzer's lying

Wolf Blitzer, CNN's April 8th edition of The Situation Room:

"General [David] Petraeus is a career military officer. Ambassador [Ryan] Crocker is a career diplomat, a foreign service officer. It's not as if they're political appointees by the Bush administration in which they can sort of, you know, roll up their sleeves and really go after them."

Are you kidding me? Ambassadors and four star generals and admirals are appointed by the president and confirmed by the senate. Of COURSE they're political. In fact, these two particular appointees got their jobs precisely because they were loyal to President Bush.

Ryan Crocker, a veteran Middle East diplomat who is the U.S. ambassador to Pakistan, is expected to be nominated by Bush to replace Khalilzad in Baghdad, two senior administration officials told CNN.

Ryan Crocker was confirmed as Ambassador to Iraq on March 7, 2007.

In September 2004, President Bush conferred on him (Crocker) the personal rank of Career Ambassador, the highest in the Foreign Service.

Bush named Petraeus to replace Casey as part of a revamping of his top military and diplomatic officials in Iraq and the Middle East.

The Senate today confirmed Army Lt. Gen. David H. Petraeus for promotion to general and assignment as commander of Multinational Force Iraq.

Since this information is well known and easily obtainable, I have to conclude that Blitzer is lying.