Posted on 07/02/2008 3:22:38 PM PDT by Coffee200am
WASHINGTON, July 1 (Xinhua) -- The White House overrated progress in its updated report on Iraq, U.S. Democratic lawmakers said Tuesday.
Congressman Mike McIntyre, a Democrat from North Carolina, said the report used false standards to determine whether satisfactory progress was made in 18 benchmarks set by the Bush administration.
The report, made public Tuesday, rated Iraq's progress in 15 of18 benchmarks as "satisfactory", up from 8 in an earlier report a year ago.
Only two benchmarks, enacting and implementing laws to disarm militias and distribute oil revenues were rated "unsatisfactory."
One benchmark was described as "mixed": the progress of the Iraqi security forces.
But McIntyre and other Democrats said only a few benchmarks has been actually met.
Senator Carl Levin, a Democrat from Michigan, said there is no military solution to the Iraq problem, no matter what White House said about the progress in Iraq.
U.S. President George W. Bush signaled that he will keep most of the current 147,000 U.S. troop in Iraq through the end of his term in January next year.
Whether the United States will speed up withdrawal from Iraq after that depends on results of this year's general election.
Republican presidential contender John McCain said he will fight the war until a complete victory while his Democratic rival Barack Obama promised to start withdrawing troops from Iraq as soon as he takes office of the president.
“benchmarks has been actually met.”
Poor grammar.
Are these people Americans?
sheesh
mrs
Yeah...Like everybody doesn’t know that Democrats are big fat lying cowards and sniveling traitors.
I do believe it’s past time to start going after major newspapers who reveal classified information. I also think it’s time to dust off our sedition statutes. We have allowed people on the left to all but commit treason without facing any down side. I think that could wind up to be a two-edged sword, but it has gotten reciculous what our officials can get away with.
Sorry, boys - you can only move the goalposts so far until you run out of field. Find another issue.
Iraq has a more effective Congress than we do. By any measure this has been the most successful war in Histoir. The DNC however remains in a quagmire.
Pray for W and Our Freedom Fighters
Another anti-American left-wing Nazi supports al-Qaeda and the terrorist emeny of the American People, Mike McIntyre from North Iran.
“Democrats: White House Overrates Iraq Progress”
The Democrats won’t recognize progress any where on anything until they can figure out a way to take the credit.
This is a serious charge.
We should contact Mike McIntyre and demand that he put forth his evidence now. A charge like this must be made boldly. Moon bats on the six o’clock news are priceless in an election year.
Wait---------------never mind!
That’s strange. I thought the Dems were underrating it.
Sunnis close to joining Iraqi government
Of course the Sunni and Shia hate each other and the Civil War will continue. /s
" 'Rats overrate their relevance and intelligence."
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