Report: Planning for Failure in Iraq
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A new think-tank study urges the Bush Administration to begin planning for containing the fallout from a complete collapse in Iraq
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Iraq has failed to meet eight out of 18 political and military goals set by the US Congress, an interim report says.
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A US newspaper has reported that the still-unfinished Army report on abuse at Baghdad&#39;s Abu Ghraib prison will blame the misconduct on failures of leadership at the US command in Iraq.
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Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld told the White House before he resigned last month the Bush administration's strategy in Iraq was not working and he proposed changes, including possible troop reductions, The New York Times reported on Saturday.
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President Jalal Talabani said today that the American program to train IraqÂs military and police, a cornerstone of the American enterprise in Iraq, was a failure.
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A new U.S. intelligence report predicted on Friday that the situation in Iraq will deteriorate further unless efforts are made to reverse conditions, a portion of the report said.
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BAGHDAD, Dec. 6 -- The Iraq Study Group's prescriptions hinge on a fragile Iraqi government's ability to achieve national reconciliation and security at a time when the country is fractured along sectarian lines, its security forces are ineffective and competing visions threaten to collapse the...
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WASHINGTON -- The effort to resurrect vital government services in Iraq has been hampered by ethnic and sectarian purges among the ranks of civil servants, a high turnover rate for senior administrative officials, and a lack of comprehensive planning on the part of both Iraqis and the United States, according to an audit by the special inspector general for Iraq ...
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Reaction to the Iraq Study Group's recommendations:
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Pentagon planners and military commanders have identified areas in Iraq that must be brought under control before elections.
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During a White House meeting last week, a group of governors asked President Bush and  Marine Gen. Peter Pace, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, about their backup plan for Iraq. What would the administration do if its new strategy didn't work?
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A new report stressed that the toppled Iraqi President Saddam Hussein sought to have a nuclear bomb, but was not able to own the necessary means for that.
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After a string of battlefield failures by the nascent Iraqi security forces, the U.S. military has committed as many as 10,000 advisers to work directly with Iraqi units in the coming months.
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The war in Iraq has been a series of errors, so it's only fitting that the exit plan should have its share of miscues, too.
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A report due out today from the chief U.S. weapons inspector for Iraq is expected to undercut a key part of the rationale for war.
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An urgent overhaul of US policy on Iraq is needed to stop "a slide towards chaos", says a major report.
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President Bush's war policies have failed in almost every regard, the bipartisan Iraq Study Group concluded Wednesday, and it warned of dwindling chances to change course before crisis turns to chaos.