Iraq report card: only 3 of 18 benchmarks met.
By on Jan 24th, 2008 at 3:27 pm
Iraq report card: only 3 of 18 benchmarks met.
On the one year anniversary of President Bush’s State of the Union address justifying his “New Way Forward” in Iraq, Center for American Progress has compiled an “Iraq Benchmark Report Card” showing that “the surge has failed to meet its objectives” as “the Iraqi government has only met three of the 18 benchmarks laid out last year.”
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Does Bush get a gentleman’s C for scoring 3 out of 18?
January 24th, 2008 at 3:27 pmBut President Bush says “we’re making progress.”
January 24th, 2008 at 3:30 pmHey! That’s over 16%! Just about half of chympie’s approval rating!
January 24th, 2008 at 3:32 pmCelebrate trolls, have a BBQ or just wander about naked in the snow for a day.
The benchmarks are a joke. It does not matter if they are reached or not to the neocons. Just more creating their own reality for everybody to get excited about, and throw everyone off the scent.
January 24th, 2008 at 3:34 pmAre we counting the DeBathification law that does the opposite of what it was supposed to do.
Like the “Clear Skies” and “Healthy Forests” initiatives?
January 24th, 2008 at 3:35 pmIt means the surge is working!!!
No, really – it’s like anyone didn’t know the Chimperor was going to ignore those benchmarks?
“Just give us another six months, then another, then YOU get to figure out how to fund the war and bring our troops home.”
January 24th, 2008 at 3:35 pmTo Bush, this is probably a passing grade.
January 24th, 2008 at 3:37 pmTo Bush, this means progress, and is “swimmingly” successful.
January 24th, 2008 at 3:39 pmEstablish support for Baghdad Security Plan – ok, this means nothing, it just says they support a security plan, but not mean anything is or will be done.
Ensure Minority rights in Iraqi Legislature – like what? Do they get keys to the bathroom or something?
Establish neighborhood security in Baghdad – You mean like the ethnic cleansing that has went on for the past 5 years?
Doesn’t look to good for them – I doubt that they will be getting much done till they quit killing each other.
Buck Fush
January 24th, 2008 at 3:41 pmWant to save the U. S economy from the ruinous Bush regime policies? 1. Stop pouring three billion dollars down the Bush ratholes of Afghanistan and Iraq. 2. cut the current credit card rates in half. 3. return to hand-counted paper ballots in our elections to stop Republicans from hacking, rigging, fixing and stealing elections electronically as they have been for the last eight years. 4. mandate universal single-payer not-for-profit health insurance and health care for all Americans. You can probably add a few more items to this Need-to-do list…
January 24th, 2008 at 3:43 pm… so you admit there is progress?
Wow, I thought you progs wouldn’t even concede that much. I guess with the MSM saying the surge worked, you really had no place to go with it, so turning it into a “1 out of 5 goals met” really isn’t much from you.
January 24th, 2008 at 3:45 pmOK #10… but I still get my $600, right?
Jamaica, here I come.
January 24th, 2008 at 3:45 pm“To give every Iraqi citizen a stake in the country’s economy, Iraq will pass legislation to share oil revenues among all Iraqis.â€
-President Bush, New Way Forward address, Jan. 10, 2008.
Excusez-moi, people, but this is the definition of communism——and we sure as heck have not gone to this much trouble and expense to implement communism in the Middle East! We are not controlling the second-largest oil reserves in the world in order to distribute the proceeds equitably among the Iraqi people. If you believe that, you’d be dumb enough to elect Bush twice—and that never happened!
January 24th, 2008 at 3:48 pmComment by Oval12345678 aka James K. Sayre — January 24, 2008 @ 3:43 pm
I agree. Guess you mean $3 billion PER WEEK. Iraq will cost us $2 Trillion all told. W is already responsible for 45% of US’s $9.1 Trillion debt. It was only $0.9 Trillion first 200 years (before Reagan).
January 24th, 2008 at 3:52 pmHey if I ever came back home as a kid with the equivalent of a 3 of out 18… well, let’s just say that was that scenario was not even an option.
What exactly is the deal with this $600 refund check??? Wow… I guess everything will be all right now that I get an extra $600. That doesn’t even cover rent!! Refund checks are not the answer!
Robert
January 24th, 2008 at 3:53 pmThe Issue | http://www.TheIssue.com
I guess he has the Iraqi people confused with the American oil companies…
January 24th, 2008 at 3:53 pmbut, but, but Condi and David and Dick and the other Dick and John say that everything’s wonderful in Iraq.
January 24th, 2008 at 3:58 pmI guess he has the Iraqi people confused with the American oil companies…
Comment by ucsbclassics53 — January 24, 2008 @ 3:53 pm
Top US oil companies’ profit was $160 Billion last year. Reserves (including Dutch, French, and British) total $2.3 Trillion—now that barrel has gone from $19 under Clinton to $89 now.
January 24th, 2008 at 4:00 pmbut I’m an easy grader.
Comment by good_golly — January 24, 2008 @ 4:03 pm
of course, gg, in your infinite idiocy, you’re ignoring the fact that the benchmarks Bush failed to achieve are those set by: Bush! So Bush is now a progressive organization!
Wow, you get dumber by the hour.
January 24th, 2008 at 4:07 pmBy the way, TP, I give you a “D+†on your reporting. “C-†on a good day, but I’m an easy grader.
Comment by good_golly
hey…I started grading you trolls and now you’ve stolen that….don’t you do anything original?
January 24th, 2008 at 4:10 pmSo what?!? W doesn’t expect the Iraqis to fix the problems he created. He expects the US to fix those problems. Problems, we all might add, he was repeatedly told would manifest themselves if he pursued the course of action he was contemplating and ultimately did pursued.
This game of Iraq War II is now just a test of wills — will W get out off office before the plug is pulled or will the plug be pulled after he leaves office. Either way, he’s dead set on blaming those that pull the plug. As we all know, nothing, absolutely nothing, is his fault or the fault of any thing American policy makers, corporations or politicians have done to muck up this or that area of the world in the interest of freedom, democracy and short-term corporate profits. (Just the 21st century twist on truth, justice and the American way).
January 24th, 2008 at 4:14 pmWhen a biased “progressive†organization grades a Conservative President, I wouldn’t expect any more than a 3/18. I prefer objective evaluations before passing judgment.
Comment by good_golly — January 24, 2008 @ 4:03 pm
Are you suggesting that these 18 benchmarks were set by biased progressives — and for that reason you think that 3/18 is OK? Or are you suggesting that the 3/18 figure was arrived at by some method other than “objective evaluation”?
January 24th, 2008 at 4:20 pmgg probably thinks that 3/18 is a socket wrench size.
January 24th, 2008 at 4:27 pmYes, haven’t we all learned in the past 7 years that only conservatives can critique conservatives. Everyone else just doesn’t understand such complex theories such as “might makes right”, the majority always wins (even if it cheats), or I got mine so you go get yours.
January 24th, 2008 at 4:39 pmComment by good_golly — January 24, 2008 @ 4:31 pm
that would appear to be the sum total of your knowledge, since you have managed to completely lie about the benchmarks, which were originally laid out by Bushco, and which have failed to be met by Bushco. What a surprise, a failed oilman can’t run a government or a war.
January 24th, 2008 at 4:45 pm24. that would be 3/16 genius. U.S. sockets come in halves, quarters, eighths, sixteenths, and thirty-seconds.
Comment by good_golly — January 24, 2008 @ 4:31 pm
Yup, you actually figured it out. I’m impressed.
January 24th, 2008 at 4:50 pmAre these the same three “benchmarks” which the administration claimed had been met, “in whole or in part”, back in September?
January 24th, 2008 at 5:10 pmFrom NPR’s morning edition today:
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=18368586
The U.S. and Iraq are negotiating an arrangement that would permit U.S. forces to continue to operate in Iraq for many years — possibly decades. Critics says the Bush and Maliki governments are colluding on a deal that would require no legislative approval.
This is an underhanded, sneaky way to commit America to Supporting/Occupying Iraq forever! They can,t CALL it a treaty, because then the Senate would have to approve it….but that’s what it is, and it would tie the hands of future presidents!
Rep. Bill Delahunt (D-MA) says such language is vague, and he has launched a series of congressional hearings to find out what it means.
I hope the American people will PAY ATTENTION to these hearings!
January 24th, 2008 at 5:27 pmComment by good_golly — January 24, 2008 @ 4:03 pm
Are you suggesting that these 18 benchmarks were set by biased progressives — and for that reason you think that 3/18 is OK? Or are you suggesting that the 3/18 figure was arrived at by some method other than “objective evaluation�
Comment by missmolly
Now there missmolly, you are only going to confuse the little cretin. He won’t understand anything you said there and he will then come back and post some new talking point to try to redeem himself.
January 24th, 2008 at 5:59 pmI’ll rate this report card as No Improvement over the last “report card” from a couple of years ago, when only 3 of the 18 or so benchmarks were made.
January 24th, 2008 at 6:59 pmRemember?
31. I already answered missmolly at 23. You’re about 90 minutes behind.
Comment by good_golly — January 24, 2008 @ 6:23 pm
but you were wrong, again. when will you give a correct answer, instead of a lie?
January 24th, 2008 at 8:21 pmWooohooooo, that is a solid F-!!!!
January 25th, 2008 at 12:28 am“22. the latter.
Comment by good_golly — January 24, 2008 @ 4:26 pm”
So you admit those benchmarks were serious benchmarks that should be met before the US withdraws troops. Got it. Sooooo…3/18 is a great job, right? Go surge!!!!!
January 25th, 2008 at 12:32 am3 of 18 = 17%
By definition, for BushCo, that’s a SPECTACULAR success. Think Katrina, Iraq, Afghanistan, hunt for bin Laden, etc. 17% is a shining beacon of competence and achievement for the BushCo horse show judges and third-tier Hey-zeus law school graduates. Be fair, give ‘em credit! After all, they could have scored 0 of 18, their default rate!!!
January 25th, 2008 at 1:10 amTC, damn right. 17% is the shiznit for the Bush administration. That is a huge success.
January 25th, 2008 at 1:22 am.
MISSION ACCOMPLISHED… YET?
2007 SURGE = Largest US Casualties = SUCCESS?
2007 SURGE = Highest civilian deaths = SUCCESS?
2007 SURGE = No political solution = SUCCESS?
17% complete doesn’t even make a “C” student.
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January 25th, 2008 at 1:57 am.
SAVE THE WORLD…
IMPEACH THE CHEER LEADER!
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January 25th, 2008 at 1:57 am