Iraq Far From U.S. Goals for Energy
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Iraq's crucial oil and electricity sectors still need roughly $50 billion to meet demand, analysts and officials say, even after the United States has poured more than $6 billion into them over more than four years.
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The White House challenges a report for Congress saying Iraq has met few targets used to measure progress.
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US Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage, left, chats with Iraqi Minister of Planning Mahdi al-Hafidh, center, and Iraqi Minister of Electricity Ayham al-Samarrai, prior to the start of a 55-nation Iraqi reconstruction donors&#39; conference in Tokyo
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The deterioratng Iraq situation is pushing both to look beyond their cabinets for solutions.
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After the U.S. government spent millions of dollars to restore parts of a major power station in Baghdad, the plant is still not fully operational because the Iraqi Ministry of Electricity has not properly operated and maintained it, according to a report released yesterday by an oversight agency.
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Iraq had no stockpiles of biological and chemical weapons and its nuclear program had decayed before last year&#39;s US-led invasion, the chief US weapons
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US president ignores demands for a new Iraq strategy that would bring US troops home.
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A U.S. briefer overstates Iran's meddling in Iraq, setting off a Washington tempest .
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The story of Baiji power station, which can produce more electricity than any plant in Iraq, helps explain why power generation remains one of the most vexing reconstruction challenges in the country.
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Attempts to pass a key oil law sought by the U.S. were snarled once more Wednesday by deep differences among Iraq's Sunni, Shiite and Kurdish leaders, delaying parliament debate despite the prime minister's claims of a breakthrough.
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Iraq's fragmented leadership is struggling to meet the major benchmarks that it has pledged to the United States to achieve soon, with political wrangling and a chaotic legislature standing in the way.
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Rather than a help toward energy independence, Big Oil and ethanol could be roadblocks.
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Politics continue to complicate energy policy.
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The Iraqi government has failed to meet the vast majority of political and military goals laid out by lawmakers to assess President Bush's Iraq war strategy, congressional auditors have determined.
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Iraq has failed to meet 11 out of 18 progress benchmarks set by the US, a Congressional watchdog finds.
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Geothermal sources remain untapped as leaders focus instead on the country's reserves of fossil fuels.
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The White House told Congress Friday that Iraqi leaders have gained little new ground toward meeting key military and political goals, a discouraging assessment a day after President Bush said that progress justifies a large continued U.S. military presence there.