from SLATE: >The Wall Street Journal's worldwide news box leads with a newly released >Pentagon report that calls Iran the "greatest long-term threat to Iraqi >security." The report was largely positive, noting that violence is at its >lowest levels in four years and praising the Iraqi prime minister for cracking >down on Shiite militias....
>Contrasting the Pentagon's largely positive report on Iraq, the Government >Accountability Office released its own report that has a decidedly less rosy >look at the situation on the ground. The WP says that "the two reports seemed >to assess wholly different realities" and notes that the GAO didn't mention >Iran once in its report. The GAO said the way the Bush administration chooses >to measure progress in Iraq doesn't tell the full story, many of the >president's goals haven't been reached, and there is no clear strategy for how >U.S. troops will proceed after the "surge" ends. Although the GAO acknowledged >there has been a decrease in violence in Iraq, it also noted that the >administration often uses misleading and exaggerated figures to show progress. >The government auditors say a mere 10 percent of Iraq's security forces can >operate without assistance from the United States. < -- Jim Devine / "Segui il tuo corso, e lascia dir le genti." (Go your own way and let people talk.) -- Karl, paraphrasing Dante. _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
