Iraq shows progress on only one benchmark: Report
Iraq shows progress in efforts to let former members of Saddam Hussein's Baath Party to rejoin the political process.
By Agencies |
WASHINGTON: A new White House report on Iraq shows slim progress, moving just one more political and security goal into the satisfactory column: efforts to let former members of Saddam Hussein's Baath Party to rejoin the political process, a senior administration official said.
The latest conclusions, to be released on Friday, largely track a comparable poor assessment in July on 18 benchmarks. The earlier White House report said the Iraqi government had made satisfactory gains toward eight benchmarks, unsatisfactory marks on eight and mixed results on two.
Congress required President George W Bush to submit the report to lawmakers, assessing whether the Iraqi government had made progress towards achieving the 18 goals. In the new report, the Iaqi government showed movement on only one.
The goal of enacting and implementing legislation on so-called "de-Baathification" was rated satisfactory instead of unsatisfactory, the official said yesterday night. He spoke on condition of anonymity because the report had not been made public.
Such a law has not passed, but the official pointed to the tentative August 26 power-sharing agreement among leading Iraqi polticians.
"This agreement by no means solves all of Iraq's problems, but the commitment of its leaders to work together on hard issues is encouraging," General David Petraeus, the top US commander in Iraq, told Congress this week.
The latest conclusions, to be released on Friday, largely track a comparable poor assessment in July on 18 benchmarks. The earlier White House report said the Iraqi government had made satisfactory gains toward eight benchmarks, unsatisfactory marks on eight and mixed results on two.
Congress required President George W Bush to submit the report to lawmakers, assessing whether the Iraqi government had made progress towards achieving the 18 goals. In the new report, the Iaqi government showed movement on only one.
The goal of enacting and implementing legislation on so-called "de-Baathification" was rated satisfactory instead of unsatisfactory, the official said yesterday night. He spoke on condition of anonymity because the report had not been made public.
Such a law has not passed, but the official pointed to the tentative August 26 power-sharing agreement among leading Iraqi polticians.
"This agreement by no means solves all of Iraq's problems, but the commitment of its leaders to work together on hard issues is encouraging," General David Petraeus, the top US commander in Iraq, told Congress this week.
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