(REUTERS) – A day after President George W. Bush cited enough progress in Iraq to justify U.S. troop reductions, the White House told Congress on Friday that Iraqi leaders had failed to meet half of their key goals.
The administration’s acknowledgment of shortfalls in the Iraqi government’s performance underscored the challenges Bush faces in selling his strategy to skeptical Democratic lawmakers and an American public increasingly opposed to the war.
In a report ordered by Congress, the White House concluded the Iraqis had made satisfactory progress on just nine of 18 political and security benchmarks and unsatisfactory progress in seven. It said it was unable to rate two other targets.
What does a logical, thinking person, one not motivated by ego, but a person that bases his decisions on business acumen and ability do when his partners can’t, or won’t live up to the DEAL and perform at the needed level??
A businessman will either fully motivate his partners and force them to bring their level of performance up to full capacity or he’ll cut his losses and let them go their own way…
What does George W. Bush do when faced with a similar scenario in Iraq?? He writes an open ended check that could very easily turn Iraq into another Korea, and in my opinion, that is something we as a nation do NOT need nor can we afford, not unless we’re going to be adequately compensated with very cheap oil and an unflappable ally in the region, there’s got to be a financial payback in this thing somewhere and oil is as good as any…
Democratic leaders said Bush was trying to obscure the fact that most of the troops being withdrawn would have left anyway under current deployment timetables, and they demanded a faster, broader withdrawal.
And this reverts right back to the Bush ‘shuck and jive’ I wrote about yesterday, it’s nothing more than shuffling the paperwork and hoping the people don’t actually catch on to what you’re doing, but much to the chagrin of the Bush administration, they have been discovered…
It deemed unsatisfactory the Iraqi government’s efforts to enact crucial oil-sharing legislation, to increase the number of Iraqi security force units able to operate independently and to eliminate sectarian bias in the Iraqi police.
So much for the really cheap oil I guess, but here’s the thing that truly concerns me, I don’t believe that we can ever train the Iraqis to a point where they will be capable of running Iraq in the fashion that Mr. Bush seeks, Iraq is NOT a U.S. state and the Iraqis, all Arabs in general for that matter, have a much different way of doing business and have an entirely different perspective on life than we do, you’d think that someone in the White House would know that little tidbit and pass it on to the ‘Deciderer in Chief’…
If anyone still doubts that Iraq will become an American Island in a Muslim sea, take a look at Iran, when the CIA deposed the Iranian leadership and placed Mohammad Reza Pahlavi in charge as Shah, by force, Iran was, for a while, an International paradise, right up until the time the Iranians deposed the Shah and returned to the rule of Sharia law and the moonbat sect of Islam…
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Too damn much contradiction; on one hand you have General Pace, who IMO is folding up and accepting the fall guy role, pretty much admitting ‘fault’ for underestimating what the Iraqi Army would do and the people during the initial invasion.
But IMO even if it was his assessment, where in the Hell did he get that info? The F-ked up intelligence agencies at the time and the fact that Bush was going in regardless, I’ll never waiver from that thought. Too much there IMO.
So who is truly at fault? I was watching something last night and it was interviewing soldiers in Anbar and a ‘for the war’ field grade officer said “we messed it up, and we owe it to these people to fix it.”
I’m as pro military and American as anyone, but IMO Bush messed this up so bad and the Iraqi people have become so divided as well as it’s government…
I just don’t know what to think anymore besides wishing ony the best for our troops and I will support what the majority of them want out of this, which is success and nothing short of a victory.
Only their own CiC has ever stood in the way of that. We achieved many goals in the beginning, Saddam fell and a democratically elected government where those people got to vote for the first time with meaning. It’s been a shit sandwich ever since.
The Iraqi government is both typical and should of been predictable given who they are and their culture. Those savages are as worthless as teats on a male goat.