Iraq: Most Goals for “Surge” Missed
August 30th, 2007The primary goal of the war is to keep the multi billion dollar give-a-way to criminal corporations going. That goal is being met.
Via: Yahoo / AP:
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.
The Associated Press has learned the Government Accountability Office, or GAO, will report that at least 13 of the 18 benchmarks to measure the surge of U.S. troops to Iraq are unfulfilled ahead of a Sept. 15 deadline. That’s when Bush is to give a detailed accounting of the situation eight months after he announced the policy, according to three officials familiar with the matter.
The officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity because the report has not been made public, also said the administration is preparing a case to play down the findings, arguing that Congress ordered the GAO to use unfair, “all or nothing” standards when compiling the document.
What a hoot. The GAO and Inspector General’s of the U.S. government have been auditing the performance measures and goals of the U.S. gvmt since the second term of the Clinton/Gore administration. Government entities are required to set goals for themselves as part of the budget process. A performance goal is quite frankly, a government programs’ way of justifying the contiunatation of itself at the taxpayer trough. Its all part of that reinventing government thang.
Bush and his cronies took it another step further with “the President’s Management Agenda.” I’m sure that LOTS of contractors have been kept $VERY$ $Busy$ writing out all of the program justifications, where each program HAS TO RATE ITSELF AND SUBMIT IT TO OMB. What an amazingly stupid, acinine process and waste of money.
Yes, I wish when I was failing in school because my eyesight was bad and I couldn’t see the board AND DIDN”T EVEN KNOW IT that I could have GRADED MY OWN TESTS.
For all those white honkies in the Penatagon and White House to be crying they don’t like their score from an objective, experienced “measurer of performance standards” is why I say this is a HOOT DELUXE.
Bush is SO INTO TESTS, SCORES, and MEASUREMENTS when it comes to every other program and agenda that is funded with U.S. taxpayer dollars. But Bush’s shit isn’t supposed to stink when it comes to HIS TESTS SCORES. Cry me a freakin’ river. When the GAO report on Iraq comes out next Tuesday- read the scope and methodology. There you will find an objective, rather than subjective set of criteria against which the GAO made their measurements, with the resulting findings. I for one think it is GREAT the Iraqi government FAILED to meet one of the U.S. benchmarks. One of their benchmarks is that they sign off rights to their own freakin oil to U.S. multinationals. It is one of the benchmarks for “SUCCESS” in Iraq, believe it or SNOT.
And yes Kevin, who gives a rats ass about the death, chaos, destruction, mass flight and exodus from Iraq when the REAL and ONLY MEANINGFUL benchmark of SUCCESS IN IRAQ is that the GOOD OLD CORPORATIONS AND BANKS THAT MAKE A PROFIT FROM the chaos and MASS DESTRUCTION in Iraq HAVE FOUND A RAINMAKER IN G.W.BUSH AND DICK CHENEY.
But Eileen, if that were true, we’d know, because the New York Times would tell us. 😉
For me, that’s the really scary thing, that so many people believe in the Times, and the rest of the news whores. I’m 43, and I think it’s very probable that in my lifetime every last person will be turned into a SSRI-taking zombie, or be killed for refusing to cooperate.
Frankly, the Biblical version of Armageddon looks preferable.
Anothernut,
I don’t know what an SSRI stands for.
I’m looking around for Dr. Fix- I need to get some info to him and he is either on vacation or not posting since the time requiring registration on Cryptogon.
Dr. Fix – where r u ? I have mixed news for u. On balance – hopeful.
E
Eileen, SSRI = Selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors
Think Zoloft, Paxil, Prozac.
Basically, antidepressants/antianxiety pills.
A short video that sums it up nicely:
http://www.rollingstone.com/nationalaffairs/index.php/2007/08/30/the-great-iraq-swindle/