The administration that brought you “with us or against us” and who only sees things in terms of black and white now is crying out for some nuance “freedom ambiguity”:
The White House is pushing back on this story in yesterday’s Washington Post by Karen DeYoung and Thomas E. Ricks on the leaked General Accounting Office (GAO) report which apparently shows little progress in Iraq. Here’s the lede:
Iraq has failed to meet all but three of 18 congressionally mandated benchmarks for political and military progress, according to a draft of a Government Accountability Office report. The document questions whether some aspects of a more positive assessment by the White House last month adequately reflected the range of views the GAO found within the administration.The clear implication of the piece is that the administration exaggerated and/or misled the public when it published its own report in mid-July declaring the Iraqis were making “satisfactory progress” in 8 out of the 18 Congressionally mandated benchmarks.
But a Senior Administration Official I spoke with yesterday vigorously disputed that characterization, saying that the GAO is applying a different up-or-down only standard, making it “an apples to oranges comparison.”
SSDD from these guys.
dingo
An apples to oranges comparison? More like a cow dung to camel dung comparison. Its crap now matter which choice you make. And where did the U.S. get the right to demand anything from a democratic nation?
Zifnab
And, seriously, who are you going to believe? Us or them?
Dreggas
But I thought they liked an upperdown standard!
Third Eye Open
Does anyone wanna start taking odds on how quick calls for impeachment from the right would be heard over the hills if things such as this were happening with a Democrat in the Oval Office?
I think we can start writing the headline over at RS the minute a Demo. WH’s report is directly contradicted by a GAO report…shit, what am I saying, the minute ANYTHING this administration has done is immitated by a Donk, Western Civilization and Representative Democracy as a whole would be in a freefall according to those putzen.
Punchy
Surprise.
Using similar predictive powers, the sun will rise in the East tomorrow, and the Chiefs offense will suck ass this year.
Pb
Translation: ever since we stopped keeping statistics on killings and roadside bombings, the numbers have gotten much better! Now stay in the Green Zone, American media, and we’ll tell you all about all the flowers and candy that you can’t see because it’s still too dangerous…