Official Iraq Benchmark Report
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Reading now…I would suggest to you guys to DL the web page version, as the PDF doesn’t have the last 150 or so words which state the course of action planned for 07-08.
July 12th, 2007 at 7:05 amI hate govermentese. I’d rather read the reports comming from Iraq at http://michaelyon.blogspot.com, confederate yankee or patdollard.com.
Or check out the rumor mill on the back channels of the great and noble Puzzle Palace. I’m being a little sarcastic, however, they often report exactly what Pat and Michael are saying.
So, I have my sources. I don’t need no stinking WH report.
That report should have been written by our resident Rudyard Kipling and Ernie Pyle not by the WH.
Don’t get me wrong….go team…. I just think the people on the ground might have a better written, more cogent and clearer assesment than some WH bureaucrat could put together.
July 12th, 2007 at 7:07 amIt’ll take a while to digest it all, but initially, the main problem I see with regard to the report is sectarian bias amongst the ISF. Their distrust of each other (ie Sunni/Shia etc) is causing a lot of problems.
It also says AQ and Mookie’s splintered Mahdi militia guys are the biggest problem because of the high profile incidents.
Oh…one more thing. Expect oil prices to stay the same and/or go up, because it is a chief source of funding for the Iraqi govt.
I’m afraid we’ll never see gas at a buck a gallon again…hell, probably never see two bucks a gallon again.
DAN: It wasn’t too “tangly” (is that a word?) or thick to read. They kept the paragraphs short (had to be a product of the Internet Message Board generation’s input).
But I agree, Ernie should/should’ve written it. But come on! They called oil Hydrocarbon Resources, LOL. I have to admit, I don’t know if they have coal or natural gas in Iraq.
July 12th, 2007 at 9:29 amBash:
Yeah I read the whole thing in the web version. Sounds like some of the DOD contract crap that I’ve read. Gives me a damn headache.
Pat and Michael have simplified things even more succinctly. And their reports should be THE REPORT that Congress gets back instead of this long-winded report.
Michael Yon has a great new piece out. Think Congress will read it? Naw. They’re too busy setting bench marks for everyone but themselves. 100 days have passed. And they’ve done exactly what? I mean other than stonewalling, obfuscating and ad nauseum investigations about nothing.
Its all about 2000. Its all about power. These shammeisters couldn’t lead a troop of girl scouts across an open field in broad daylight. And they’re running the show?
It is so bad that even Mr Potato Head Slim Russert got it right (Hell, even a complete retard is right once in a while. Don’t know, might be attributable to Global warming?) when he said:
“I think there’s a growing sense, a strong sense, that Washington is just broken. It’s incapable of now taking on big issues like immigration or the looming Social Security crisis or the war in Iraq…”
The report is DOA. The Dems have no interest in anything but the ‘08 election. Think Robbie The Robot from Lost in Space: “Bush bad, Dems good.”
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July 12th, 2007 at 11:36 amFor anyone who really wants to get an indepth look at the whole situation in Iraq, here is an excellent in depth report that gets frequently updated tracking a whole lot of statistics of what is going on over there. When you follow the link to the Brookins Institution page click on the recent pdf link to get a copy and bookmark the page to go back to it.
I have used it many times to debunk what some blog posters say and it is well worth sangging and saving a copy to cut and paste from.
Good historic data including lots of graphs for the reading comprehension challenged.
July 12th, 2007 at 12:51 pm