Posted on 07/10/2007 9:37:30 AM PDT by tobyhill
WASHINGTON — Senior military sources in Iraq said Tuesday they have no intention of moving up an assessment on progress in Iraq from September nor will an interim report due this week suggest that the Iraqi government has failed to reach any benchmarks for success.
A spokesman to Gen. David Petraeus, the head of Multinational Forces in Iraq, told FOX News that the report that is due in September will be delivered in September. The remark was made following reports that Petraeus may deliver the report early in the face of growing impatience for the war on Capitol Hill.
"There is no moving up of the assessment from September," said MNF-I spokesman Col. Steven A. Boylan.
And according to a senior U.S. military source in Baghdad who has read a draft of the interim report to be delivered to Congress this week, it will show movement by the government in Iraq. The source added the benchmark report was never intended to measure if the Iraqi government has achieved the 18 benchmarks laid out for it but was only meant to assess the status of each of the specific benchmarks with a specific goal of declaring whether satisfactory or unsatisfactory progress was made toward meeting the benchmarks.
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LLS
All day yesterday I heard that the report would claim no progress and now to find out that while benchmarks have not been met yet progress is being made on almost all fronts. This administration needs to find out who that “official” was that made the claim and prosecute them.
You’re assuming there IS actually an official ... maybe there is, or maybe Jayson Blair is the source. :-)
Harry Reid said if he heard good news he wouldn’t believe it.
President Bush ought to announce (like Clinton did) the troops will be home Christmas and when Christmas comes around simply say he meant next Christmas.
New headline: “Surrender monkeys choke on another rotten bananna.”
Darkest before the dawn. Victory is near, if we stand firm. The Dems are dancing over an electoral abyss, and a nudge will send them over. Stand firm, Mr. President.
I could not agree more with you!
LLS
Brig,
Can Cheney call a Joint Session of Congress and invite Petraus to speak directly to the American people just like the State of the Union?
Screw pork-chop boy Russert, and the rest of those facakta carnival clowns like Matthews and their stupid Weapons-Of-Mass Destruction questions.
Go straight to the American People....
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