Olbermann Slams Bush for his lies and trying "play us" into more war. Gen. Patraeus has famously said "sectarian violence has dramatically decreased." A GAO report released yesterday said: "It is unclear whether sectarian violence in Iraq has decreased–a key security benchmark–since it is difficult to measure perpetrators’ intents, and various other measures of population security from different sources show differing trends..average daily attacks against civilians have remained unchanged from February to July 2007."
What is more the report in summary found:
The Iraqi government met 3, partially met 4 and did not meet 11 of eighteen benchmarks. The GAO had to change to partially met 4 because the Bush administrations said they were being juded too harshly. Overall, the GAO said violence remains high, key legislation has not been passed and it is unclear whether the Iraqi legislature will spend the $10 billion in reconstruction funds.
As Congress considers the way forward in Iraq, it should balance the achievement of the 18 Iraqi benchmarks (by all measures fail), with military progress and homeland security goals, foreign policy goals and other goals of the United States.
This is a clear message to Congress. Will they listen?
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