Posted on 06/17/2008 10:47:49 AM PDT by george76
Democrats no longer talk of the 18 benchmarks for measuring progress in Iraq because so much progress has now taken place.
Way back in the dark days of 2007, when the only popular question about the Iraq war concerned the degree of tragedy, Congress’s Iraq “benchmarks” were all the rage among Democrats. Every argument against a continued U.S. presence in Iraq was constructed around the Maliki administration’s apparent inability to meet the political and security-based milestones as outlined by America’s Democratic-majority Congress.
Then something happened. The gains of the troop surge allowed the Iraqi government and citizenry to implement the security measures and legislative acts called for by the U.S. The benchmark line of argument quietly died. Here, then, is the brief life and glorious death of the great benchmark trope.
In mid-May 2007, Congress passed bill H.R. 2206, which included 18 benchmarks intended to gauge success in the security and political reconciliation of Iraq. Some of the benchmarks were broadly worded calls for beefed-up security, while others cited very specific goals.
Petraeus defanged anti-war Democrats by calling for a troop drawdown starting mid-2008. Because Petraeus had realized that benchmarks weren’t the most useful metric ...
Well, if the benchmarks were all-important to Democrats in the fall of 2007, they have become meaningless to them in 2008. When is the last time you’ve heard a benchmark reckoning from Harry Reid or Nancy Pelosi? The reason for the deafening silence on this matter is simple. The military and political progress in Iraq has proved so monumental that the majority of the benchmarks have now been met.
(Excerpt) Read more at pajamasmedia.com ...
Robbed of their benchmark-rage
The U. S. media has an agenda that has nothing to do with reporting the “news”. One of the lead stories in all forms of media for the past few days was about gays marrying in California. Now, seriously, who really cares?
That shuffling noise in the background is the sound of Goal Posts being moved...
Not that anyone is going to know about it.
In fact, that roast....the big one might be better left for the future.
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This does not matter, the media will ignore it, and the dems will just think of an obscure negative from the situation and focus on it. Yet again, it will be pushed to the side to the tune of “Democrats are all knowing and infallable”. What’s the point of all of this when it’s ignored all of the time?
They will never run out of lies or people willing to believe them.
The gains of the troop surge allowed the Iraqi government and citizenry to implement the security measures and legislative acts called for by the U.S. The benchmark line of argument quietly died... In mid-May 2007, Congress passed bill H.R. 2206, which included 18 benchmarks intended to gauge success in the security and political reconciliation of Iraq. Some of the benchmarks were broadly worded calls for beefed-up security, while others cited very specific goals... if the benchmarks were all-important to Democrats in the fall of 2007, they have become meaningless to them in 2008. When is the last time you’ve heard a benchmark reckoning from Harry Reid or Nancy Pelosi? The reason for the deafening silence on this matter is simple. The military and political progress in Iraq has proved so monumental that the majority of the benchmarks have now been met.The surge? Oh yeah... President Bush ordered that not long after the 2006 election, when he became a Lame Duck. Lucky for the Demwits that he's so weak. ;') Thanks geo.
The point is, *we* know it. The Demwits rely on the stupidity and credulousness of their small core of supporters and their partisan media shills, but that party is in the minority and has been for a long time.
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Harry Reid’s benchmark is on his backside!
1. Destroy SH and gain a new Iraq as an ally in the region
2. Get SA and other ME countries on board in the WOT
3. Undermine terror funding from ME.
4. Marginalize or co-op Syria and Iran and get everyone else, like Jordan and Pakistan, more fully behind the WOT.
5. Drain the swamp of poverty, humiliation and western blame that feeds terror recruiting and funding.
6. Destroy open AND covert state support for terror.
Iraq ping.
Bookmark! Thanks for the good news!
Earlier news:
MILITARY: Charges against Haditha battalion commander dropped
US-Iraq security pact 'not dead,' deal ready in July: Iraqi FM ( Hoshyar Zebari )
Look at Fox, Look at Rush....tell the truth and you grow, lie for the democrats and you join the dinosaur media death watch.
simple stuff
Look at Fox, Look at Rush....tell the truth and you grow, lie for the democrats and you join the dinosaur media death watch.
simple stuff
That's the mission I am proud to be a part of. Late last year when we saw it really start to come together, it was fascinating.
And Police Day in Baghdad this past January was a fantastic experience. Just a year before, we wouldn't have dreamed of attending such an event because it was too dangerous.
My, how things have changed and continue to change.
BTTT
Body Odor is going to have a tough sell, as things continue to improve and McPain can site so many verifiable facts to use against the nay sayers.
Yes E. It was great news indeed. At last this Marine can breath a bit more easy.
another stupiod slogan they say
clinton lied no one died
well now they admit clinton lied because when he was inpower they said he never lied
and clinton when in power did kill thousands in serbia, Iraq, Afghantistan, many camels though there, Sudan, Magadishu, etc etc
Don’t forget the Democrat that fessed up that in 2006 Democrats “kinda lied a little” about the state of affairs in Iraq so they could win control of Congress.
That is treason to give aid and comfort to the enemy by spouting propaganda designed to sink US morale.
let’s say Obama does go to Iraq
well what is he going to say, after being there he’d be told by the Iraqi politicians that progress is good, he would be told by the generals and by the soldiers progress is good, he would be told by the vast majority that progress is now happening
so what does he say when he comes back, that is if he has any guts to go there and seek the truth.
the fare left and the dims are in a confused state right now, they cannot use Iraq and what happened to Pelosi two years ago saying we will bring oil down, we will do this and that
they haven’t done anything and if the GOP doesn’t call it for them then they most certainly will be hammered at the next election
so come on the republican party ask them where there plan went to ask them about Iraq and oil prices they said they would bring down.
shouting all day that we must seek alternative fuel is not going to bring down process nor is it going to get us off foreign oil .
I never knew about Lenora , so many thanks .
the dims lied and lied about Iraq, they went on their tirades with the help of the MSM, They shouted they would do this and that and yet have done nothing and instead of the American public asking what is the plan they just voted for the dims.
For instance
the Dims say they will pull pout and redeploy
well I would like to know what time frame, are they saying pull out right now or gradually over year, redeploy redeploy where?????????????????, and if it kicks off again in Iraq do we go back in and what would make us go back in.
Of course the GOP could have been more useful and getting these questions asked instead the Dim party got elected on useless, promises and lies.
Not surprising is that Obama is doing it again, sue the media, tell lies, make a load of false promises and yet won’t even have a town hall debate where he can be questioned by the likes of me who is a white, gun toting, not that religious though, wanting borders closed down sort of a guy
I never knew about Lenora , so many thanks .
the dims lied and lied about Iraq, they went on their tirades with the help of the MSM, They shouted they would do this and that and yet have done nothing and instead of the American public asking what is the plan they just voted for the dims.
For instance
the Dims say they will pull out and redeploy
well I would like to know what time frame, are they saying pull out right now or gradually over year, redeploy redeploy where?????????????????, and if it kicks off again in Iraq do we go back in and what would make us go back in.
Of course the GOP could have been more useful and getting these questions asked instead the Dim party got elected on useless, promises and lies.
Not surprising is that Obama is doing it again, sue the media, tell lies, make a load of false promises and yet won’t even have a town hall debate where he can be questioned by the likes of me who is a white, gun toting, not that religious though, wanting borders closed down sort of a guy
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