At least, that's what my shit MSM and government told me!
Report says buildup in Iraq gained little
Despite hopes that the U.S. military "surge" in Iraq would encourage economic and political headway and sap the strength of the insurgency, very little lasting progress has been achieved, according to a new U.S. report.
Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates dismissed the report's conclusion, which he said "doesn't square" with what he is hearing from senior U.S. military officers in Iraq.
Asked yesterday about the report, Gates said he had not read it and does not believe its assessment.
[That's keeping an open mind, huh?
One could argue that mine is closed towards the Bush, but that is wrong.
I have simply been lied to too much!!!]
"The information that we're getting from the commanders and from the ambassador doesn't square with that," Gates said at a Pentagon news briefing. "Our sense is that, in fact, there is progress in these areas - more than we would have expected."
Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates dismissed the report's conclusion, which he said "doesn't square" with what he is hearing from senior U.S. military officers in Iraq.
Asked yesterday about the report, Gates said he had not read it and does not believe its assessment.
[That's keeping an open mind, huh?
One could argue that mine is closed towards the Bush, but that is wrong.
I have simply been lied to too much!!!]
"The information that we're getting from the commanders and from the ambassador doesn't square with that," Gates said at a Pentagon news briefing. "Our sense is that, in fact, there is progress in these areas - more than we would have expected."
Adm. Mike Mullen, the new chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, also said the report's assessments differ from what he saw on a recent trip to Iraq.
As evidence of a growing economy, Mullen cited a butcher at a local market just outside Baghdad who until recently was selling a sheep every week. Now, the butcher is selling a sheep every day, Mullen said.
"I don't want to overly state it ... but it's starting to happen," he said."
Oh, our lovable, lying Pentagon!
