Iraq and Gao Failing Report

Again Bush and his Republican – NeoCON buddies provide false information (LIEs) to Congress and US people.
Congress must cut funds for the Iraq debacle, make plans for immediate withdrawal of all US Troops from Iraq, and make plans to diplomatically heal the wounds to all foreign nations who have been damaged by the Bush-Republican-NeoCon  rule.
Congress must investigate and bring charges of War Crimes or Impeachment of all officials who have violated our US Constitution to carry out what can now be seen as Tyranny against our once Great USA Nation.
Iran has been willing to negotiate and has satisfied the International Inspectors that it is complying with all restrictions and agreements Iran has made. The unfounded Bush-NeoCon media announcements must be discounted by the people of the USA as well as Our US Congress.
I submit a leaked but soon to be released report from the Government Accountability Office (GAO)
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The release of the GAO's pessimistic assessment comes as a critical time in the Iraq debate, as administration officials including David Petraeus, the top U.S. commander in Iraq, and Ryan Crocker, the ambassador to Iraq, are due to report to Congress in mid-September on the progress of the war.

“Congressional legislation in May 2007 established 18 benchmarks for military and political progress in Iraq, and a White House assessment in July was relatively upbeat, reporting "satisfactory" progress on eight of the benchmarks and "mixed" progress on two more.

The GAO report was more pessimistic, claiming that only three of the benchmarks had been met: creating of committees in support of the Baghdad Security Plan, establishing of joint security stations in Baghdad, and ensuring the rights of minority parties in the Iraqi legislature.

In several areas where the White House had reported satisfactory progress, the GAO claimed that benchmarks had been unmet or only partially met. These included allocating and spending 10 billion dollars of revenue for reconstruction projects, providing three effective Iraqi brigades to support U.S. military operations, and reviewing changes to the Iraqi constitution.

The draft concluded that "key legislation has not been passed, violence remains high, and it is unclear whether the Iraqi government will spend 10 billion dollars in reconstruction funds."

It also offered an implicit rebuke to earlier administration assessments, claiming that they "would be more useful" if they provided more details to support their claims and more data on violence in Iraq.

The final version of the report will be released on Tuesday, and the draft is still being reviewed by the Pentagon and other relevant agencies.  The leakage of the document to the Washington Post is a sign that officials involved in the report's preparation are worried that its negative assessments will be toned down during the review process.”

I ask you my Congressional representatives in the House and Senate to closely scrutinize all directives and reports from the Bush-NeoCon Republican Administration. The only conclusion which can be made is for Congress to cut funds for the Iraq debacle, make plans for immediate withdrawal of all US Troops from Iraq, and make plans to diplomatically heal the wounds to all foreign nations who have been damaged by the Bush-Republican-NeoCon  rule.
Congress must immediately investigate and bring charges of War Crimes or Impeachment of all officials who have violated our US Constitution to carry out what can now be seen as Tyranny against our once Great USA Nation.
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Bruce Eggum, Gresham, Wisconsin, USA

Please also view:  U.S.-IRAQ: Fallon Derided Petraeus, Opposed the Surge
By Gareth Porter*

WASHINGTON, Sep 12 (IPS) - In sharp contrast to the lionisation of Gen. David Petraeus by members of the U.S. Congress during his testimony this week, Petraeus's superior, Admiral William Fallon, chief of the Central Command (CENTCOM), derided Petraeus as a sycophant during their first meeting in Baghdad last March, according to Pentagon sources familiar with reports of the meeting.

Fallon told Petraeus that he considered him to be "an ass-kissing little chickenshit" and added, "I hate people like that", the sources say. That remark reportedly came after Petraeus began the meeting by making remarks that Fallon interpreted as trying to ingratiate himself with a superior.
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Also: POLITICS-US: High-Level Support Ebbs for Surge
By Eli Clifton


WASHINGTON, Aug 20 (IPS) - Washington's policy makers are growing dissatisfied with the George W. Bush administration's troop surge in Iraq and a majority agrees that the world is becoming more dangerous for the United States, according to a poll released Monday.

The nonpartisan poll, called The Terrorism Index and released by the Centre for American Progress and Foreign Policy magazine, surveys more than a hundred foreign policy experts, including former secretaries of state, top commanders in the U.S. military, senior intelligence professionals and academics, to assess the effectiveness of how the United States is fighting the "war on terror".

In this year's results, 91 percent of participants said the world is becoming more dangerous for the United States, while only 2 percent said it was safer and 84 percent of poll participants disagreed that the U.S. is winning the war on terror.
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