Iraqi Government Making Progress on Benchmarks
Is it just me or haven’t I noticed Democrats spouting off about missed Iraqi benchmarks. It probably has a little to do with the government actually making progress on 15 of 18:
Iraq’s political and military success is considered vital to U.S. interests, whether troops stay or go. And while the Iraqi government has made measurable progress in recent months, the pace at which it’s done so has been achingly slow.
The White House sees the progress in a particularly positive light, declaring in a new assessment to Congress that Iraq’s efforts on 15 of 18 benchmarks are “satisfactory”—almost twice of what it determined to be the case a year ago. The May 2008 report card, obtained by the Associated Press, determines that only two of the benchmarks—enacting and implementing laws to disarm militias and distribute oil revenues—are unsatisfactory.
It’s still not success, but it’s progress.
Real progress in Iraq is also why a Democratic Congress that ran in 2006 to end the war passed another war-funding resolution.
“New Iraq Report: 15 of 18 Benchmarks Satisfactory” [via Infidels are Cool]
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