Monday, July 9, 2007

Iraqi Government Misses All of Its Targets

More bad news for the Bush Administration (and not so good for the rest of the world, either). Can't wait to see how they spin this one. Mr. Snow? I know he won't let us down.

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WASHINGTON—A progress report on Iraq will conclude that the U.S.-backed government in Baghdad has not met any of its targets for political, economic and other reform, speeding up the Bush administration's reckoning on what to do next, a U.S. official said Monday.
One likely result of the report will be a vastly accelerated debate among President Bush's top aides on withdrawing troops and scaling back the U.S. presence in Iraq.

The "pivot point" for addressing the matter will no longer be Sept. 15, as initially envisioned, when a full report on Bush's so-called "surge" plan is due, but instead will come this week when the interim mid-July assessment is released, the official said.


Read more at: DenverPost.com

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