Draft of September Report on Iraq leaked!

The ambassador also suggested what is likely to be another core element of the approach that he and General Petraeus will take to the September report: that the so-called benchmarks for Iraqi government performance set by Congress in a defense authorization bill this spring may not be the best way of assessing whether the United States has a partner in the Baghdad government that warrants continued American military backing. “The longer I’m here, the more I’m persuaded that Iraq cannot be analyzed by these kind of discrete benchmarks,” he said.

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Measured solely by the legislative benchmarks, he said, “you could not achieve any of them, and still have a situation where arguably the country is moving in the right direction. And conversely, I think you could achieve them all and still not be heading towards stability, security and overall success for Iraq.”

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/10/world/middleeast/10iraq.html?pagewanted=2&_r=1&hp

Well, that's it folks. We pretty much know what the "September report" is going to be about.

keystone cop administration and dark the dick of this is another story.

Sorry, they don't need convincing the msm does so they can continue to sell us this shit.

I'm for michael moore, why not just turn off the tv's.

"you could achieve them all and still not be heading towards stability, security and overall success for Iraq.”