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    Default Bush administration breaks the law again.

    Columnist David Broder on July 3:

    The Metrics Of Success In Iraq

    By David S. Broder

    Sunday, July 3, 2005; Page B07

    President Bush is facing an early legal deadline to deliver what he has been most resistant to providing: a set of specific benchmarks for measuring progress toward military and political stability in Iraq.

    Under a little-noticed provision of the defense spending bill passed by Congress in May, Defense Secretary Don Rumsfeld has until July 11 to send Capitol Hill a "comprehensive set of performance indicators and measures of stability and security" two years after the fall of Saddam Hussein.


    A Pentagon spokeswoman, responding to my inquiry, said last week, "We are working toward completing the report by the due date."

    If and when it comes in, it could do much more than the president's Tuesday night speech at Fort Bragg to provide a factual basis for judging how close we may be to reaching our goals in Iraq.

    In that address, Bush once again demolished a straw man, denouncing any talk of a deadline for withdrawal of U.S. and coalition forces and any timetable for phasing them out. While public support for a pullout has grown, almost no one in Congress is advocating such a step.

    What serious people are asking of the administration is a set of yardsticks by which the situation in Iraq can be realistically measured -- and accountability established for a strategy to reach those goals. That is something the president has refused to provide, beyond his cliched declaration that "the United States will stay as long as necessary -- and not one day longer."

    It is hard to understand his resistance to this perfectly reasonable demand for a set of metrics by which all concerned -- Congress and the administration, service members and their families, and the general public -- could judge what is happening.
    more: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn...070101818.html
    Of course, no such set of performance indicators has been produced. What is today's date?


    Here is a link, however, that will provide a measure of our success in Iraq: http://icasualties.org/oif/

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    Default Re: Bush administration breaks the law again.

    Let's get on the phones and remind our congressmen of this metric requirement, which is a VERY GOOD IDEA.

    We may not need a timetable and it may be unadvisable, but we sure can use metrics.
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