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Recent reports on Iraq disagree with general and ambassador.(Inside Track)(General David Petraeus and Ambassador Ryan Crocker)(Brief article)
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Three recent reports about the struggle in Iraq provide numerous contrasting views to the recent upbeat testimony supplied by General David Petraeus and Ambassador Ryan Crocker. One report, provided by the Government Accountability Office, said that Iraq's government had met only one of eight legislative benchmarks, adding that there was little likelihood that meaningful progress would soon be made. The GAO report also claimed, contrary to the relatively rosy assessment given by the general, that "the average number of daily attacks against civilians remained about the same over the last six months."
A second report, derived from the work of 16 U.S. intelligence agencies, sharply criticized the government of Nuri al Maliki. Labeling his government unable to rule and predicting that his leadership will become "more precarious" in the months ahead, the National Intelligence Estimate ...
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