U.S. Officials: Iraq Report Will Show Some Progress

Source: Fox

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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.

"I can assure you that we did assess some of the benchmarks as satisfactory progress," the source told FOX News.

"I don't think that is accurate as there has been some from my understanding that have either been met are are in progress, especially in the areas of security and movement in some of the legislative" activities, the individual added.

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Bush's military command prepares to lie so that they can keep sending troops to their deaths, and keep their jobs!!!!!!

sit and spin....round and round we go...

Within a very short time, all of its positive claims will be demonstrated to be false. A fifth of the populace will still believe in that "progress."