White House pushes back on Iraq report

AP ^ | August 30, 2007 | ANNE FLAHERTY

[avacado]

WASHINGTON - An independent assessment concluding that Iraq has made little political progress in recent months despite an influx of U.S. troops drew fierce pushback from the White House on Thursday and provided fresh ammunition for Democrats who want to bring troops home.

The political wrangling came days before the report was to be officially released...

[avacado]

That's all of the excerpt that is needed. Just look at the title and the first two paragraphs. The MSM knows that everybody is waiting for General Petraeus' report and they (MSM) try and blur this GAO report (aka Democrat Report) to make it look like General Petraeus' report says Iraq is a total mess. Good Lord! Hold me back... the MSM makes my skin crawl!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :-(

[gcruse]

The meme “pushing back” seems to have a toehold in discourse. It hasn’t reached triteness yet, but the trend is there. I like it because the meme it correlates with is one I got sick of years ago.

First, in the 1980s, came ‘sharing.’ In the business world, meetings and conferences weren’t feely enough if they didn’t begin with, “I have something I want share with you.” This got real old real fast but stayed around for fifteen years.

“Sharing” was replaced by “reaching out.” I cursed ATT’s commercials emploring us to “reach out and touch someone,” oh, and while you’re at it, pay us for it.

Unfortunately, we’re still “reaching out.” Whenever I run into “X reached out to Y,” I stop reading whatever it is I’m reading and go to the next article. Reaching out is so gay.

And that’s what I like about the new meme. Enough reaching out. It’s time to push back. Don’t you know there’s a war going on?

[Bommer]

In a draft report circulated this week, the Government Accountability Office concluded that at least 13 of the 18 political and security goals for the Iraqi government have not been met. Administration officials swiftly objected to several of the findings and dismissed the report as unrealistically harsh because it assigned pass-or-fail grades to each benchmark, with little nuance.

It sounds to me that they are mirroring the Democrap Party in lack of achievements. Does this mean that we can withdraw our dollars from there ineptitude and incompetence?

[gusopol3]

what is not mentioned here ,that I can see, is that this report was LEAKED. By the Government Accountabilty Office ,presumably. From the Washington Post print edition ( paragraph 6, pA14 continuation of page 1 story): " the person who provided the draft report to The Post said it was being conveyed from a government official who feared that its pessimistic conclusions would be watered down in the final version-- as some officials have said happened with security judgements in this month's National Intelligence Estimate on Iraq."

[gusopol3]

shadow government, anyone?

[Freee-dame]

the person who provided the draft report to The Post said it was being conveyed from a government official who feared that its pessimistic conclusions would be watered down in the final version--

Maybe its pessimistic conclusions are inaccurate and when the actual data comes out won't be true.

[Tears of a Clown]

silly surrendercrats, they have to pre-empt everything good about iraq with their own mantra of defeat and “but its never gonna be good enough!” talk.

Forget them.