Congress watchdog says Iraq falls short of goals
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The Iraqi government has failed to take the political and military steps needed to cut sectarian violence, a U.S. congressional report said on Tuesday and a U.S. general said the next months were critical for creating security in the country.
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Democrats are reviving their push for troop withdrawals as a progress report finds Iraq has not met key targets.
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Intent on seizing control of Congress, Democrats want to keep the focus on President Bush's missteps in Iraq. Yet the war is fracturing the party in a handful of House and Senate races.
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Congressional Democrats on Wednesday decried tens of millions dollars of waste in Iraq reconstruction aid, as a new government report underscored a need for closer scrutiny of how the costly war is being handled.
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Members of Congress yesterday questioned the practicability of recommendations from the Iraq Study Group about how to reverse the chaos in Iraq, but they praised the panel's stark assessment of conditions there.
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Elections in January throughout Iraq are an achievable goal, the State Department said Monday, but it refused to predict the goal would be reached.
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Ryan C. Crocker, the U.S. ambassador to Iraq, gave Congress an assessment that left unmentioned some of the most troubling developments of the past nine months.
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U.S. handling of Iraq's oil money after the defeat of Saddam Hussein was marked by weaknesses including problems tracking oil production and cash, a watchdog told the U.N. Security Council on Friday, diplomats said.
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Provincial reconstruction teams, the civilian centerpiece of the Bush administration's strategy in Iraq, are making "incremental" progress in some areas and very little in others, a government auditor told Congress yesterday.
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Iraq has met only three out of 18 goals set by Washington for political and security progress, according to a draft of a key report being prepared for Congress, The Washington Post reported on Thursday.
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The Iraqi government has made mixed progress in meeting political and security goals, a U.S. official said on Thursday, citing a report that may add to rising calls for a change of course in the unpopular war.
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The fallout from the killing of as many as two dozen Iraqi civilians by Marines could undermine U.S. efforts in Iraq more than the Abu Ghraib prison scandal did, a lawmaker who is a prominent war critic said Sunday.
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A look at what lawmakers are saying about the Iraq war:
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A White House update on progress in Iraq will show meager gains have been made on the 18 benchmarks Congress established for the Iraqi government, said two sources outside the White House. President Bush will report Friday that one benchmark has been upgraded since July to satisfactory, the sources said.
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BAGHDAD -- Iraq's political leaders have failed to reach agreement on nearly every law that the United States has demanded as a benchmark, despite heavy pressure from Congress, the White House, and top military commanders. With only three months until reports on progress are due in Washington, the deadlock has reached a point where many Iraqi and US officials now ...
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The Iraqi government has made mixed progress in meeting political and security goals, a U.S. official said on Thursday citing a report that may add to rising calls for a change of course in the unpopular war.
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A cross-party committee of the US Congress has criticised the Bush administration for the slow progress of reconstruction in Iraq.