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And Now For Something Completely Different

by John Cole|  August 31, 20071:24 pm| 7 Comments

This post is in: Military, War, Republican Crime Syndicate - aka the Bush Admin.

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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.

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  1. 1.

    dingo

    August 31, 2007 at 2:14 pm

    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?

  2. 2.

    Zifnab

    August 31, 2007 at 2:33 pm

    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.”

    And, seriously, who are you going to believe? Us or them?

  3. 3.

    Dreggas

    August 31, 2007 at 3:40 pm

    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.”

    But I thought they liked an upperdown standard!

  4. 4.

    Third Eye Open

    August 31, 2007 at 3:47 pm

    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.

  5. 5.

    Punchy

    August 31, 2007 at 4:25 pm

    Surprise.

    Using similar predictive powers, the sun will rise in the East tomorrow, and the Chiefs offense will suck ass this year.

  6. 6.

    Pb

    August 31, 2007 at 4:30 pm

    America’s troop buildup in Iraq has sharply reduced sectarian killings and roadside bombings and lowered al-Qaida’s influence, the top U.S. general in the country said in an interview published Friday.

    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…

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  1. Balloon Juice says:
    September 4, 2007 at 1:46 pm

    […] 2.) The reason for the surge, to provide time for a national political reconciliation, seems to have failed. The GAO report (the unvarnished one leaked to the press last week, at least) points to a widespread failure to achieve these goals. These were goals agreed to by the administration, and now the only course of action for the administration and supporters is to haggle with how we define progress. Inspires a great deal of confidence, doesn’t it? […]

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