It's all about bringing down the Bush regime...
Another day- Another liberal in government leaks classified information to the Bush-hating media.
The AP has today's leak to damage the US war efforts:
WASHINGTON - The Iraqi government has failed to meet the vast majority of political and military goals laid out by lawmakers to assess President Bush's Iraq war strategy, congressional auditors have determined.With today's liberal media, Al-Qaeda has never had it so good.
The Associated Press has learned the Government Accountability Office, or GAO, will report that at least 13 of the 18 benchmarks to measure the surge of U.S. troops to Iraq are unfulfilled ahead of a Sept. 15 deadline. That's when Bush is to give a detailed accounting of the situation eight months after he announced the policy, according to three officials familiar with the matter.
The officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity because the report has not been made public, also said the administration is preparing a case to play down the findings, arguing that Congress ordered the GAO to use unfair, "all or nothing" standards when compiling the document.
The GAO is to give a classified briefing about its findings to lawmakers on Thursday. It is not yet clear when its unclassified report will be released but it is due Sept. 1 amid a series of assessments called for in January legislation that authorized Bush's plan to send 30,000 more troops to Iraq, where there is now a total of more than 160,000 troops.
UPDATE: The Pentagon disputed the Congressional report and offered corrections.
Maliki promised to have that Oil Law (or whatever it's called) passed by September (before the report).. they've already passed the new (de)Ba'athification Law.. so we'll just have to wait & see if they can pull that rabbit out of the hat (so to speak) & prove them wrong yet once again.. ;)
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ReplyDeleteaah, patience, that fat lady hasn't sung yet..
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ReplyDeleteHT : valerie @ ITM
Good news, but not for Democrats
excerpts:
[More good news came just this week in a breakthrough announced by Iraq's top Shiite, Sunni, and Kurdish politicians. Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, President Jalal Talabani, Vice President Tariq al-Hashemi, Vice President Adel Abdul-Mahdi, and the Kurdish regional president, Massoud Barzani, are joining forces on legislation to settle some of the thorniest issues bedeviling Iraqi politics, including a national oil policy, an easing of de-Baathification, and the release of certain detainees.
For most Americans, positive developments in Iraq are very welcome. But good news is bad news for the Democratic left, where opposition to the war has become an emotional investment in defeat. House majority whip Jim Clyburn of South Carolina was asked by the Washington Post what Democrats would think if Petraeus reports next month that the war is going well. "That would be a real big problem for us," Clyburn candidly replied.]
[That is what John F. Kennedy called a profile in courage, and it is troubling that there are no such profiles among the Democrats running for president this year. JFK was elected at a time when Americans could trust his party to confront international threats with resolve. That changed after Vietnam, where the Democratic left insisted on defeat and got its way, only to lose voters' trust on national security for a long time thereafter.
Today the left insists on defeat in Iraq. It beats up any Democrat who strays off-message. It treats good news from the front as "a real big problem." Is that any way to win an election? In the short term, maybe. But we're in the midst of a long-term war -- one that Americans don't want to lose.]
btw: here in MA.. we call the
Boston Globe the Dem Globe,
don't ya just luv the irony.. ;)
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Gateway Pissant wails about the release of the report. He can't be bothered to spare a thought for the tale the report tells: The "surge" has failed. The Iraqi government simply hasn't met the benchmarks that the surge was supposed to enable them to accomplish.
ReplyDeleteRemember, kids: Telling the American people the facts will "damage the US war efforts". Ignorance is strength!
There's that 'wailing and gnashing of teeth' again. Lefties like meatbrainless must really feel like they are in Hell as the Surge continues to succeed.
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ReplyDeletemeatbrainless, you must be the Hulk.
(no offense to the Hulk)
What "success", Otter? The Iraqi government has failed to meet the benchmarks. Iraqis are being displaced by the thousands. This summer has been the deadliest summer of the war for US soldiers.
ReplyDeleteWhen the facts are examined dispassionately, no real "success" can be found.
meathead ...
ReplyDeleteGoogle "Anbar Rising"
Google "al-Ameriki"
The political progress is coming from the ground up, along with some from the top down as has been noted here ... could it be Congress has mandated the wrong benchmarks to measure prgress?
Of course. Like you and other Leftists, the leading Congresscritters think that progress only can come from the top down ... a fallacy that has messed this country over, many times during my lifetime.
But you won't change the benchmarks to make them more accurate ... since you and the other Leftists are stuck at grade-school level when it comes to evaluation and judgment, you will insist on blindly "following the rules" even though they lead to the wrong conclusion.
BTW, ask the boys at Iraq the Model about their family vacationing in Syria recently, and returning safely. Let them tell you how things are getting better.
We won't be fooled again ...
When the facts are examined dispassionately, no real "success" can be found.
ReplyDeleteLet me correct you ...
... when the facts are examined in the light of 20th-Century conventional wisdom, no real "success" can be found.
That is, the conventional wisdom that leads one to believe that America is dominated by an invincible established corporate Conspiracy (in reality, a gaggle of Old Money establishments that keep getting their customers, and therefore wealth, taken away from them by Arkansas rednecks and college dropouts) ...
... that wars are only fought to satiate the greed, empire, and ego of the Conspirators; but we "enlightened" are above all that (after all, fighting to preserve life and liberty is so 18th Century), and therefore the existence of a war is inherently a failure of all involved ...
... or at the very minimum, that any deviation from the best-case scenario equates to total failure ...
... and also leads one to believe that the hypothetical possibility of an American shredding paper is a greater threat to world peace, than the demonstrated certainty of thugs shredding people.
We listened to your thinking once.
We got the events of 11 September 2001.
We won't be fooled again ...