July 11, 2005: The day the Bu$h administration broke the law, again

[understandinglife]

The Metrics Of Success In Iraq

By David S. Broder

Sunday, July 3, 2005; Page B07

President Bush is facing an early legal deadline to deliver what he has been most resistant to providing: a set of specific benchmarks for measuring progress toward military and political stability in Iraq.

Under a little-noticed provision of the defense spending bill passed by Congress in May, Defense Secretary Don Rumsfeld has until July 11 to send Capitol Hill a "comprehensive set of performance indicators and measures of stability and security" two years after the fall of Saddam Hussein.

A Pentagon spokeswoman, responding to my inquiry, said last week, "We are working toward completing the report by the due date."

If and when it comes in, it could do much more than the president's Tuesday night speech at Fort Bragg to provide a factual basis for judging how close we may be to reaching our goals in Iraq.

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More at the link:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/07/01/AR2005070101818.html

As noted by Think Progress today:

July 11 Comes and Goes: No Iraq Indicators

July 12, 2005

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The deadline for this data? July 11. Yesterday.

As it turns out, the administration is apparently more willing to violate the law than give Americans a clear, detailed picture of where we are in Iraq, and where we’re headed. A spokesman for the Pentagon told me today that those Iraq indicators have been “delayed” and that there is currently no specific date set for their release.

More at link:
http://thinkprogress.org/

Iraq. Plame. Abu Ghraib. Guantanamo. DSM. Bolton. ..... crime after crime after crime. Way more damage to America than any bomb could ever cause; the insidious neoconster cancer continues unabated.

WATCH IT; SPREAD IT http://www.bushflash.com/right.html

Peace.

www.missionnotaccomplished.us - How ever long it takes, the day must come when tens of millions of caring individuals peacefully but persistently defy the dictator, deny the corporatists their cash flow, and halt the evil being done in Iraq and in all the other places the Bu$h neoconster regime is destroying civilization and the environment in the name of "America."

[halobeam]

1. is that all ya got?

*sarcasm off now.

[understandinglife]

2. "Finally, it directs Rumsfeld to provide, ...

... -- either in public or in classified annexes -- an estimate of U.S. military forces needed in Iraq through the end of calendar 2006 and the criteria the administration will use to determine when it is safe to begin withdrawing forces from that country.

Link:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/07/01/AR2005070101818_2.html

This is not a joke.

It is a violation of law.

It is violation of law that involves the well-being of each and every member of our Armed Forces.

To violate this law is to compromise them and our National Security.

I have already sent this to Congressman Conyers requesting his advice as to how to bring attention to a blatantly illegal act.


Peace.

www.missionnotaccomplished.us

[enough]

3. Now if only there were somebody in some other branch of government,

to hold them accountable. But no, that would be constitutional goverment.

Thanks for posting this.

[understandinglife]

4. As we are doing with Rove, with DSM, with Iraq, ....

.... it is truly "We The People..." who are going to purge the law-breakers from our government - as it should be.

This is particular illegal action is potentially one that every Citizen can understand and can connect to the well-being of our Armed Forces. Thus, let's spread the word.


Peace.

www.missionnotaccomplished.us

[Karenina]

6. Accountable?

How do you spell that?

[frictionlessO]

5. there ya go agin, consipirizing the DU populace!

You dont have any real proof about Iraq and the DSMs don't count and Gitmo was just a prank and its not all the neoconsters fault and you're making me uncomfortable so you must be a racist out to hurt the cause!! You freepy infiltrator you!

and uhmm :sarcasm:

[mod mom]

9. Are there any moderate elected Republicans , or are they all complicit?

Can it be that the entire gop is willing to place party loyalty to the administration over protecting the constitution and our democracy? Are they blind to the treasonous action committed by the neo con thugs?

[Just Me]

7. This junta's pattern of breaking laws is fairly well-established.

When are they going to be prosecuted/convicted/sentenced?

Soon, I hope.

[DaveJ]

8. Yet more proof that

This administration is off doing its own thing, independent of any accountability.

[understandinglife]

10. "Pressure grows as Pentagon misses deadline on troop levels"

Pressure grows as Pentagon misses deadline on troop levels

By Bryan Bender

July 12, 2005

The Bush administration yesterday came under more pressure to outline the number of American forces that may need to stay in Iraq over the next two years after the Pentagon failed to meet a 60-day deadline set by Congress to provide a detailed plan for training Iraqis and for likely US troop levels.

The report to Congress, due yesterday, was required under the $80 billion war spending legislation approved in May. It is intended to help answer one of the most pressing questions hanging over the American-led occupation: when the United States might be able to begin drawing down the estimated 140,000 forces in Iraq.

The White House and Pentagon are facing rising calls from Democrats and Republicans for a more detailed strategy in Iraq -- calls that grew louder yesterday.

"I am deeply disappointed that the administration failed to comply with this initial . . . deadline," Representative Martin T. Meehan, a Lowell Democrat and senior member of the Armed Services Committee, told Secretary of Defense Donald H. Rumsfeld in a letter. "It is long past due for the administration to provide Congress with meaningful information to evaluate our progress in Iraq."

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More at the link:

http://www.boston.com/news/nation/washington/articles/2005/07/12/pressure_grows_as_pentagon_misses_deadline_on_troop_levels/

The failure of the Pentagon to comply with the law is being noticed.


Peace.

www.missionnotaccomplished.us

[natrat]

11. is it possible that e voting has rendered the republicans

totally fearless?

[understandinglife]

12. Certainly contributory; especially since the dominionist nutjobs ...

... control the "levers."


Peace.

www.missionnotaccomplished.us

[bleever]

13. Soft on treason. No respect for law.

Is this really what 48% of Americans voted for last November?


Great post, UL.