New White House report on Iraq shows progress on only ONE benchmark of 18 -- WTF is THIS?

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Read it now. The MSM is about to enter another OJ orgasm.


New White House report on Iraq shows progress on only one benchmark

Anne Gearan / Associated Press


WASHINGTON -- A new White House report on Iraq will show improved progress on just one of 18 political and security goals -- efforts to allow former members of Saddam Hussein's Baath Party to rejoin the political process, a senior administration official told The Associated Press.

The latest conclusions, to be released today, largely track a comparable poor assessment in July. The earlier White House report said the Iraqi government had made satisfactory gains toward eight benchmarks, unsatisfactory marks on eight and mixed results on two.

Congress required President Bush to submit the report to lawmakers, assessing whether the Iraqi government had made progress toward achieving the 18 goals. In the new report, the Iraqi government showed movement on only one of the benchmarks.

The goal of enacting and implementing legislation on so-called "de-Baathification" was rated satisfactory instead of unsatisfactory, the official said Thursday evening. He spoke on condition of anonymity because the report had not been made public.

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