Embattled Bush agrees to reports on Iraq progress

[babsbunny]

http://news.independent.co.uk/world/americas/article2534047.ece

By Rupert Cornwell in Washington and Patrick Cockburn in Baghdad
Published: 12 May 2007
Bowing to ever-growing pressure from Republicans as well as Democrats for a swift end to the war, President George Bush now says he is ready to embrace a system of "benchmarks" to measure progress in Iraq - a concession that, in effect, shifts responsibility for failure from the United States to the government in Baghdad led by Nouri al-Maliki.

Mr Bush's move came as the Democrat-controlled House of Representatives passed a new war package that provides $43bn (£22bn) of no-strings funding until July, at which point the administration would have to gain new congressional approval for the rest of the $95bn it is seeking.

That measure, even in the unlikely event it is endorsed by the Senate, has no more hope of surviving a presidential veto than the first funding bill, setting a 2008 deadline for a US troop withdrawal, which Mr Bush rejected earlier this month. But it is a sign of how Congress is insisting on a say in the management of the war, amid a growing risk of Republican defections that could put Mr Bush's veto power in danger.

[merh]

1. What is really pathetic is that the "bill" requires that the weed

do exactly what the IRW and the War Powers Act requires any way, that is report to Congress and advise of all the progress, let them know how the efforts to realize the purpose of the resolution/military authority is going.

:banghead:


And I join others that believe the IRW is no longer valid given the objectives have been realized.

[Toots]

2. A provision in the IWR calls for official reports every ninety days..

They have never abided by that...Another reason to redo the IWR. The resolution was not followed in the first place so why have it on the books at all?