{"id":199158,"date":"2007-08-30T21:44:00","date_gmt":"2007-08-31T02:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2007\/08\/30\/leaked-gao-report-says-iraq-a-failure\/"},"modified":"2007-08-30T21:44:00","modified_gmt":"2007-08-31T02:44:00","slug":"leaked-gao-report-says-iraq-a-failure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2007\/08\/30\/leaked-gao-report-says-iraq-a-failure\/","title":{"rendered":"Leaked GAO Report Says Iraq a Failure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It appears that a draft of a GAO report <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2007\/08\/29\/AR2007082902434.html?hpid=topnews\">has been leaked to the Washington Post<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\"><p>Iraq has failed to meet all but three of 18 congressionally mandated benchmarks for political and military progress, according to a draft of a Government Accountability Office report. The document questions whether some aspects of a more positive assessment by the White House last month adequately reflected the range of views the GAO found within the administration.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It&#8217;s been leaked because one of the writers knew that it would be censored by Bush and His Evil Minions<sup>\u2122<\/sup> in its final version.<\/p>\n<p>In a related note, the Pentagon, &#8220;<span style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\">Said Wednesday that it won&#8217;t make a single, unified recommendation to President Bush during next month&#8217;s strategy assessment<\/span>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>This means that they don&#8217;t want to be Bush&#8217;s bitch on Iraq any more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It appears that a draft of a GAO report has been leaked to the Washington Post. Iraq has failed to meet all but three of 18 congressionally mandated benchmarks for political and military progress, according to a draft of a Government Accountability Office report. The document questions whether some aspects of a more positive assessment &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[970,1063,978],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-199158","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-corruption","category-iraq","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199158"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=199158"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199158\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=199158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=199158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}