Guess what the NYT turns the focus to, readers:
"Pentagon Says Services in Iraq Are Stagnant" by MICHAEL R. GORDON
I don't like the by-line!
A Pentagon mouthpiece is Gordon.
WASHINGTON — Despite a significant reduction in violence in Iraq over the past three months, the Iraqi government has made little headway in improving the delivery of electricity, health care and other essential services, a new Pentagon report said Tuesday.
As expected, the report chronicled a substantial decline in attacks on Iraqi civilians, Iraqi security forces and American troops. According to the Pentagon, the increase in the price of oil has increased government revenues. The Iraqi economy is projected to grow by 6.3 percent in 2007.
So, WHERE is all that OIL GOING?
Electricity production has increased somewhat, but supply still falls well short of demand, the report said. The shortfall in November 2007 was 42 percent of total demand compared with 53 percent in August 2007 and 47 percent in August 2006.
The United States has built 85 of 142 planned health care centers, many of which have been turned over to the Ministry of Health, which has been dominated in recent years by followers of Moktada al-Sadr, the anti-American Shiite cleric. The report noted, however, that some of the medical centers have not been opened “due to a shortage of trained medical staff” and a “sectarian agenda” within the Health Ministry that has led to the discrimination against Sunni areas.
Yup, blame the "sectarian" lie for the failures!
I'm not commenting much because I'm tired of the Times and their lies about Iraq!
What else they lying about?
Sectarian politics has hampered progress in other areas, as well.
Yeah, it is responsible for everything, and AmeriKa is never to be blamed for anything, huh?
While political gains have been tenuous there has been much progress in lowering the level of violence, the report indicated.
Oh, here he goes, last half of the report!
The number of attacks per week using bombs, mines, mortars, antiaircraft weapons and small arms was fewer than 600 during November 2007. When President Bush began to send additional reinforcements to Iraq in February, the weekly figure was about 1,400.
The number of civilian deaths declined to about 600 in November from more than 2,500 in January, according to American and Iraqi government data cited in the report.
The number of roadside bomb attacks, which are generally aimed at American and Iraqi forces, dropped drastically. There has also been a significant decline in car bomb attacks, which are often directed at civilians, since the start of the year. However, the number of suicide attacks involving car bombs and individuals wearing vests filled with explosives was up slightly from October to November.
More than 3,600 members of Al Qaeda in Mesopotamia were killed or captured from February 2007 until mid-November, the report said, including 54 emirs or senior leaders. The military pressure on the homegrown Sunni Arab extremist group, which American intelligence agencies have concluded is foreign-led, has driven many of the insurgents north, according to the Pentagon.
You mean THIS "Al-CIA-Duh," Mike?
Also see: "Al-CIA-Duhs" Catch-and-Release Program
Am I ever tired of the bullshit cover story lies, readers!
Regarding Iran, the report said that there has been “no identified decrease in Iranian training and funding” of Shiite militias in Iraq, but the Pentagon study did not specifically say whether Iranian arms shipments have declined. There has been a decrease of attacks involving a particularly lethal type of roadside bomb that American intelligence says is supplied by the Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps."
Yeah, they gotta get Iran into the mix, even if they haven't done anything!
Stink New York Times!
