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  • Official: Iraq gov't misses all targets

    07/09/2007 5:21:51 PM PDT · by don-o · 51 replies · 1,345+ views
    AFP via Yahoo News ^ | July 9, 2007 | ANNE FLAHERTY and ANNE GEARAN
    WASHINGTON - A progress report on Iraq will conclude that the U.S.-backed government in Baghdad has not met any of its targets for political, economic and other reform, speeding up the Bush administration's reckoning on what to do next, a U.S. official said Monday. One likely result of the report will be a vastly accelerated debate among President Bush's top aides on withdrawing troops and scaling back the U.S. presence in Iraq. The "pivot point" for addressing the matter will no longer be Sept. 15, as initially envisioned, when a full report on Bush's so-called "surge" plan is due, but...