[jveritas]

What December list of benchmarks? This is the first time I hear about it. Can you please explain more. Thank you.

[Marine_Uncle]

Hi J. Last month or at the earliest, late October, we read an article or two here that said within one paragraph, that the US had handed a "list of objectives" to the Iraqi Government, without indicating what was on the list, but used the words benchmark. This was about the time when some people on the hill started to use that term.
The article(s) indicated, that the IG was supposed to sign off on the list, then agree to certain dates as how to show us they where going to tackle various issues.
Shortly after, we started to hear about how Maliki was supposedly going to solve the sectarian issue.
I wish I could point out what FReeper postings contained what I write but simply cannot remember about what week I saw the articles posted.