WASHINGTON, Nov. 24 (UPI) — The Bush administration has lowered expectation for quick achievement of some major political goals in Iraq, The New York Times reported.

With military successes overshadowing the political component of the Iraq campaign, the administration has lowered its sights on such issues as passage of an oil revenue-sharing law and the scheduling of regional elections. U.S. officials are instead focusing on what the Times called more limited but achievable goals.

The aim is to convince Iraqis, foreign governments and the American public that progress is being made on the political front. The troop surge that the U.S. military has been conducting throughout 2007 was intended to create conditions for political progress in Iraq.

The new emphasis will be on such matters as passage of an Iraqi budget, renewal of a United Nations mandate authorizing the U.S. presence in Iraq, and enacting legislation permitting the Iraqi government to hire members of former dictator Saddam Hussein’s Baath Party. The Iraqis were already expected to pass the budget and have renewed the U.N. mandate on several occasions in the past — and the government has already begun quietly to rehire Baathists, the Times said.

SOURCE:
Report: U.S. lowers Iraq expectations – UPI.com

Well, that’s OK, the Bush administration lowering it’s expectations of quick achievement of some major political goals in Iraq, America lowered it’s expectations of Bush not long after we made the mistake of re-electing him the 2nd go round…

Granted, the choice we were faced with if we didn’t re-elect Bush was less than satisfactory, Americans were in a position of being forced to elect the lesser of 2 evils once again, and again, all we got was evil…And now the Iraqi campaign has been reduced to more limited but achievable goals??

Several bloggers that I know personally have been preaching, for quite some time I might add, Iraq was NOT the place we needed to go and it wasn’t necessary to go in to Iraq like we did, I personally feel that the only reason we did go to Iraq was to satisfy the urges of an impertinent child that felt his only chance at a legacy was to defend his Daddy’s honor by defeating that evil man Saddam, consequences be damned, Bush was going to Iraq to take out Saddam just because he wanted to, and I honestly don’t believe it had ANYTHING to do with Iraqi Freedom or the oil…

The troop surge was intended to create conditions for political progress in Iraq?? Strange, I seem to remember the Bush Bots saying it was being done to achieve that ultimate victory that 30% of the nation believed Bush was going to hand them, but now, we’re still not seeing that ultimate victory, Iraqi politics are more screwed up than ever and the religious divisions are as wide as ever, and we continue to ask our troops to DIE for the Iraqi Freedom mantra the Bush Bots chant as the taxpayers of the USA keep pouring BILLIONS into George and Dick’s Excellent Adventure…

And folks, that VICTORY was in our hands, but the Bush administration didn’t have a clue as to what to do or how to handle it to make it come to fruition…

Our troops did what our troops always do, a wonderful job, simply stunning, but they were only allowed to do so much, when you hog-tie your military and don’t allow them to do the FULL job they were sent to do because YOU want to remain politically correct and don’t want to in any way appear to be the bad guy, well, you can’t achieve VICTORY through half-assed political efforts, and that my friends is WHY we are seeing a lowering of expectations in Iraq, they aren’t capable and we weren’t forceful, plain and simple…

The Bush administration has mismanaged our efforts in Iraq, and whether you believe we needed to go into Iraq or not, there is NO argument that Bush and Company micromanaged Iraq to the point that we have now been in Iraq, fighting in Iraq, for a longer period of time than we were involved in WWII, and for that there is NO excuse…

The only reason Iraq wasn’t a stunning victory is because the United States has a president that has caused us to believe that lower standards isn’t really all that bad, well, he’s convinced 30% of the nation on that, his Bush Bots, but we, as Americans can NEVER again settle for the lesser of 2 evils or lower expectations…

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