Progress is seen on half of Iraq goals
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WASHINGTON -- A widely anticipated White House report on Iraq, set for release today, contends that Iraq has made "satisfactory" progress toward nearly half of the political and military goals sought by Congress, while acknowledging that an equal number remain "unsatisfactory," an administration official said yesterday.
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The White House said today that Iraq has made "satisfactory progress" toward meeting nine of 18 political, economic and security benchmarks and cited "encouraging signs" of conditions that would allow the United States to reduce its forces there.
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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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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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Iraq's Shi'ite Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki said on Sunday his government had made progress on all fronts and urged neighboring countries to work together to stop what he called "evil" from destabilizing the region.
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Though many Iraqis say they have seen positive steps, the security plan is being judged along sectarian lines.
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Monday's address is expected to highlight improvements in Iraq, but not reforms for immigration or Social Security.
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Developments in Iraq on Thursday:
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However, the head of the commission said there had been sufficient progress in Iraq to envision a reduction in forces as early as next year.
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Among the political benchmarks the Bush administration has embraced to chart progress in Iraq, approval by the Iraqi parliament of a hydrocarbon law looms large. Oil provides 95 percent of Iraq's national income, making the recovery of the country's oil sector critical to reducing the United States'...
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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 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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The aim is to accelerate deployment of Iraqi forces against the insurgents.
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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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Iraqi leaders insisted they were making military and political progress, defending their efforts after the Bush administration gave the Baghdad government a spotty report card on a series of benchmarks aimed at bringing stability to the war-torn nation.
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Bombers killed nearly 50 Iraqis on   Wednesday, mostly in Baghdad, but the top U.S. commander said a   security drive in the capital was making progress and local   forces could largely be running Iraq within 12 to 18 months.
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A new White House report on Iraq shows slim progress, moving just one political and security goal into the satisfactory column: de-Baathification