"Mixed Progress"

The White House released the Administration's progress report on Iraq today. They claim mixed progress and are now trying to spin the results to seem like half of the benchmarks are met. You can read the report for yourself, and I think as a voter and taxpayer, you should. The results are not balanced. See for yourself. The White House seems unwilling to square with the American people. If this were a report card about a student's progress (something we all have experience with) the student would be failing.

You can argue that the benchmarks were too hard, and they do argue that in some cases. For example spending our money on captial improvements is not progressing fast enough to spend $10 billion in time. Maybe they need our congress over there... we could build a couple of bridges to nowhere for them.

Or, take the "Satisfactory Progress" rating they gave to the benchmark that the Maliki government deploy three additional brigades of Iraqi Army units in Bagdad. This disingenous rating was achieved by drawing forces from other units around the country, not by establishing new units as proscribed.

Once again this administration is playing fast and loose with the truth and demonstrates their aversion to accountability.

You're doing a hell of a job Bushie...