Bush gets an F grade for failed Iraq policy

[ProSense]

Independent audit finds progress lacking in Iraq

By David M. Herszenhorn and Brian Knowlton
Published: September 4, 2007

WASHINGTON: As Democrats in Congress opened a marathon series of hearings on the Iraq war Tuesday, members of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee seized on a new report by the Government Accountability Office showing virtually no political progress by the Iraqi government as the latest evidence that President George W. Bush's military strategy is failing.

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"No matter what spin we may hear in the coming days, this independent assessment is a failing grade for a policy that simply isn't working," Senator John Kerry of Massachusetts, the chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee, said in opening remarks that seemed to sum up his party's message.

"We are here to measure whether that which the Iraqi government itself promised to achieve has been achieved, " Kerry said, as his committee prepared to question David Walker, the comptroller general of the Government Accountability Office.

"We're looking for the truth," Kerry said. "We're looking for the facts, and we're looking for the best policy for the United States of America."

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"There has been no meaningful progress on meeting political benchmarks," Kerry said to Walker, with no intonation of a question mark although he was in a question-and-answer session with Walker.

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