Here is another piece of enraging crap from the propaganda specialists over at the NYT!
"U.S. Scales Back Political Goals for Iraqi Unity" by STEVEN LEE MYERS and ALISSA J. RUBIN
WASHINGTON, Nov. 24 — With American military successes outpacing political gains in Iraq, the Bush administration has lowered its expectation of quickly achieving major steps toward unifying the country, including passage of a long-stymied plan to share oil revenues and holding regional elections.
Instead, administration officials say they are focusing their immediate efforts on several more limited but achievable goals in the hope of convincing Iraqis, foreign governments and Americans that progress is being made toward the political breakthroughs that the military campaign of the past 10 months was supposed to promote.
So the FUCKING SURGE FAILED, and yet we were told for MONTHS that it was succeeding!
I am fucking tired of being lied to by the SHIT MSM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
The short-term American targets include passage of a $48 billion Iraqi budget, something the Iraqis say they are on their way to doing anyway; renewing the United Nations mandate that authorizes an American presence in the country, which the Iraqis have done repeatedly before; and passing legislation to allow thousands of Baath Party members from Saddam Hussein’s era to rejoin the government. A senior Bush administration official described that goal as largely symbolic since rehirings have been quietly taking place already.
Bush administration officials have not abandoned their larger goals and emphasize the importance of reaching them eventually. They say that even modest steps, taken soon, could set the stage for more progress, in the same manner that this year’s troop “surge” opened the way, unexpectedly, for drawing Sunni tribesmen to the American side.
This is still front-page shit-shoveling, reader!
Yup, SURGE WAS A SUCCESS, even though it FAILED!!!!!!!! I AM OUTRAGED!!!!!!!!!!!!!
A senior official said the administration was intensifying its pressure on the Iraqi government to produce some concrete signs of political progress.
“If we can show progress outside of the security sector alone, that will go a long way to demonstrate that we are in fact on a sustainable path to stability in Iraq,” the senior official said, speaking on condition of anonymity.
Yup, Iraq is on the path now!
And HOW LONG WE BEEN HEARING THE SAME SHIT FROM THIS FUCKING LYING ADMINISTRATION!!!!!!!!???
On Saturday, Ryan C. Crocker, the American ambassador to Baghdad, said that the military had created an opportunity for progress,
And here is where the turn-in is! What SHIT awaits me inside?!
Yup, opportunity for progress after the fucking year is over!
What the fuck was going on this last year, assholes?
I AM TIRED of being told to WAIT and BE PATIENT by these fuckers who LIED US INTO WAR and are LYING TO KEEP US THERE!!!!!!!!!
FUCKING SICK OF THEM!!!!!!!!
adding that there were some indications that Iraqis on the local as well as the national level want to move forward. But he cautioned against expecting quick results on the core issues.
“We are seeing encouraging signs of movement,” he said, but added, “This is going to be a long, hard slog.”
How come that ain't on the front page, assholes?
“It is going to be one thing at a time, maybe two things at a time, we hope with increasing momentum,” he said. “It is a long-term process.”
Yeah, and you thought the surge was ending!
The White House has been elated by the drop in violence since the increase in American forces, now 162,000 troops. Public comments by President Bush and his aides, though, have been muted, reflecting frustration at the lack of political progress, a continuation of a pattern in which intense American efforts to promote broader reconciliation have proved largely fruitless.
They just never stop lying, do they?
Yeah, the WH has been muted in praising the surge!
STOP WITH THE FUCKING LYING, WILL YA?!!!!!!!!!!
There have been signs that American influence over Iraqi politics is dwindling after the recent improvements in security — which remain incomplete, as shown by a deadly bombing Friday in Baghdad. While Bush officials once said they aimed to secure “reconciliation” among Iraq’s deeply divided religious, ethnic and sectarian groups, some officials now refer to their goal as “accommodation.”
“We can’t pass their legislation,” a senior American official in Baghdad said. “We can’t make them like each other. We can’t even make them talk to each other. Well, sometimes we can. But we can help them execute their budget.”
Yeah, we can "help" 'em loot, er, I mean, spend their budget!
Like the Iraqis need us to be "teaching" them anything, arrogant AmeriKan shitstink!!!!!!!!!
Ambassador Crocker drew a distinction between the effectiveness of the American military buildup in quelling violence and the influence the United States could bring to bear at a political level.
“The political stuff does not lend itself to sending out a couple of battalions to help the Iraqi’s pass legislation,” he said.
Still, he said, there were some positive signs that Iraqis were interested in making headway on some thorny issues. Provincial governors, he said, were pressing for a law to define their powers. “We are past the point where it is an American agenda,” the ambassador said. “It is what needs to be done in Iraqi terms.”
What BULLSHIT LYING by CROCK-OF-SHIT CROCKER!!!
Officials in Washington and in Baghdad share the view that military gains alone are not enough to overcome the deep distrust among Iraqi factions caused by nearly five decades of dictatorship and war. And in both capitals there are leaders who continue to hold out hope for broad political gains, eventually.
I am really sick of the FUCKING ZIONIST LIES, dammit!!!!!!!!!!
Like this SHIT HOLE INVASION has NOTHING TO DO WITH IT!
What a SHIT FUCKING PAPER!!!!!!!!!!!!
“We need a grand bargain among all the groups,” said one senior member of Iraq’s government, speaking on the condition of anonymity.
But with that not yet in sight, Bush administration officials said they hoped approval of a few initial steps might lead to more substantive agreements next year, including provincial elections, which the White House wants to see held before Mr. Bush leaves office in less than 14 months.
Another "election" photo-op to claim surge success next year!
That's all that fucking propaganda is!
Gonna see the war as a strength in American politics!
Can you fucking believe their arrogance, readers?
The prospect of such elections has been politically delicate because of the fear that some regions, like Shiite-dominated southern Iraq, are most likely to vote for leaders who support stronger regional governments at the expense of the Baghdad administration.
WTF? It's o.k. for the Sunnis and the "Awakening," though?
FUCK OFF, asshole Bush!!!!!!!!!!
While one Bush administration official called the renewed pressure on Baghdad a “political surge” after the increase in troop levels this year, most of what Washington is seeking appears to reflect a diminished and more realistic set of expectations after months of little political progress.
Translation: The SURGE FAILED, but by changing the measurements again, the government (and compliant MSM) are going to CLAIM SUCCESS!!!!!
I AM TIRED OF BEING LIED TO!!!!!!!!!!!
The troop increase at the beginning of the year was intended to create the conditions to improve Iraq’s political stability, measured by so-called benchmarks, including a broad agreement on sharing oil revenues.
But those benchmarks remain largely unfulfilled. The administration’s critics in Congress have cited the lack of progress toward those benchmarks as evidence that the White House is on the wrong track and ought to begin a rapid pullout of combat forces.
But with the MSM on his side, Bush needn't worry!
They will simply COVER-UP HIS DAMN LIES!!!!!!
Perhaps the most achievable of the administration’s short-term targets, American and Iraqi officials said, is legislation that would allow thousands of members of the Hussein-era Baath Party, most of them Sunnis, to return to government positions.
A senior administration official described that legislation as largely symbolic — since the Shiite-dominated government had begun to accommodate some Sunni officials in practice — but important in that it would at last signal some progress, capitalizing on the relative lull in violence.
Other immediate steps the Bush administration is pressing the Iraqi government to take include passing a budget, $48 billion for the coming year, and again renewing the United Nations mandate for the American troop presence before it expires at the end of the year.
In Baghdad, Iraqi officials indicated that the various parties, which like much of the country are defined largely by sect or ethnicity, remained far apart on the more difficult issues of sharing power and revenues. But some seemed surprised by the idea that the Bush administration would apply more pressure.
Prime Minister Nuri Kamal al-Maliki’s political adviser, Sadiq al-Rikabi, said none was needed to persuade the Iraqi leaders and Parliament to approve a budget. “Every state needs a budget,” he said. “It’s impossible to function without a budget. It does not need any push from anyone.”
At the same time, though, he expressed an appreciation for the Bush administration’s effort to keep all sides talking.
American officials note that as routine as it may seem to pass a budget, the Iraqis did not quickly adopt the current one.
WTF? WE DON'T HAVE ONE HERE IN AMERICA, you assholes!!!!
What SHITSTINKING FUCKING ARROGANCE!!!!!!!!!!
Although the White House no longer faces the immediate prospect of losing crucial political support for the war — because the opponents lack the votes needed in Congress to force a policy change — the imperative for political progress remains, if only because of the American elections in less than a year.
I am TIRED OF THE FUCKING LIES!!!! What SHIT MEDIA!!!!!!!!
Despite the reduction in violence, with attacks now down to levels last seen in early 2006, some Democrats in Congress have continued to press for a timeline for a withdrawal. Most recently, the House tried to tie a deadline to a $50 billion war spending bill, although that proposal died in the Senate.
Yeah, those unreasonable, unknowing DemopcraPs!
Never mind the American people, right?
When Congress debated the war earlier this year, the administration pushed hard for the Iraqis to approve some of the legislation. Several times, for example, the law on dispensing oil revenues, which are now surging because of high world oil prices, appeared on the brink of adoption, only to stall.
One of the immediate American concerns is getting Iraq to request extending the United Nations mandate. In Baghdad, a senior Iraqi government official said that the extension would not be a problem, but that there was little progress in negotiating the longer-term agreements on a “strategic partnership” with the United States.
“It’s the status of forces agreement that we have to start on,” the official said. That agreement, although not an issue until 2009 or later, is a far more delicate matter because it will frame the future military relationship between the countries.
But we are going to withdraw at some point, or so the lying MSM likes to shovel in our face!
SEE WHY I AM ENRAGED and TIRED OF THE STINK FUCKING LIES of the god-damned AmeriKan MSM!?!!!!!!!!
The most important thing the Americans can do is keep Iraq’s political blocs — Shiite and Sunni Arab and Kurds — talking to one another and help them understand legislation now being debated, several Iraqi politicians said. Only with concrete information, they said, could rumors be dispelled that legislation might help or hurt certain groups.
I am fucking tired of the god-damn Zionist racism and exceptionalism promoted in these fucking stinkbag papers!!!!!
You know, you can bullshit the shit-chewing Amurkn people, but please don't condescend to people that have existed in societies for thousands of years!
I AM FUCKING TIRED OF AMERIKA'S STINK-FUCKING ARROGANCE!!!!!!!!!!
“So far, the activities of the American Embassy are a bit limited in this regard,” said Qassim Daoud, an independent Shiite in Parliament, who served as a minister for security in the government of Ayad Allawi before Iraq regain its own sovereignty.
Earlier this month, the White House dispatched several senior aides to Baghdad to work with the Iraqis on specific legislative areas. They include the under secretary of state for economic, energy and agricultural affairs, Reuben Jeffery III, who is working on the budget and oil law; the State Department’s senior Iraq adviser, David Satterfield, who is focused on the elections and de-Baathification law; and Brett McGurk, the National Security Council’s Iraq director, who is pressing for the United Nations mandate and a longer security agreement. All have been meeting with a variety of officials and party leaders across Iraq, a senior administration official said.
That's Satterfield the Zionist Spy, readers!
Strange how you NEVER HEAR about the Israeli Spy Scandal, huh?
American officials in Baghdad appear to understand the limitations they face and are focusing on pragmatic goals like helping the Iraqi government spend the money in its budget. That, officials in both countries said, could do more than anything else to ease tensions and build support for the national government.
“I think reconciliation will eventually come,” a senior Bush administration official said, but added, “That’s a long way down the path.”
I am absolutely tired off these shit-fuck liars in the administration and media!
FUCK THE STINKFUCK New York Times, readers!
This may have pushed me over the edge!
I MAY NOT PURCHASE THOSE STINKFUCKS ANYMORE!!!
It would SURE CUT DOWN on my SWEARING and aggravation!
Ever notice that when I post blogs, I'm very quiet and tame, readers?
That's what happens when you read MSM lies!!!!
