Iraqi Timeline Not Being Met

   Thus far today.

   Iraq is behind in their " benchmarks " which were set by the Bush administration which is another one of those shocking surprises.

New York Times

Iraqis’ Progress Lags Behind Pace Set by Bush Plan

By HELENE COOPER and DAVID E. SANGER

Published: March 15, 2007

WASHINGTON, March 14 — The Bush administration, which six months ago issued a series of political goals for the Iraqi government to meet by this month, is now tacitly acknowledging that the goals will take significantly longer to achieve.

Prime Minister Nuri Kamal al-Maliki of Iraq has promised reforms that have yet to appear.

In interviews this week, administration officials said that the military buildup intended to stabilize Baghdad and create the conditions for achieving the objectives would not be fully in place until June and that all of the objectives would not be fulfilled until the year’s end.

A “notional political timeline” that the administration provided to Congress in January in an attachment to a letter from Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice to Senator Carl Levin, chairman of the Armed Services Committee, had called for most of the objectives to be met by this month.

   From this month to the end of the year is quite a change. By the end of the year this timeline will have changed once again to the middle of 2008 and so on and so on.

   That is unless the Democrats grow some balls and put a stop to this bullshit and get our troops home. Let the freakin' Iraqis deal with the problems because they have had more than enough time to get their act together.

 

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