A progress report on Iraq will conclude that the U.S.-backed government in Baghdad has not met any of its targets for political, economic and other reforms, speeding up the Bush administration's reckoning on what to do next, a U.S. official said Monday.To put that in numerical terms, "not met any" means that they've met zero targets. It's the null set.
From another AP story:
And some context and details:The boost in troop levels in Iraq has increased the cost of war there and in Afghanistan to $12 billion a month, and the total for Iraq alone is nearing a half trillion dollars, congressional analysts say.
All told, Congress has appropriated $610 billion in war-related money since the Sept. 11, 2001, terror assaults, roughly the same as the war in Vietnam. Iraq alone has cost $450 billion.
The figures come from the nonpartisan Congressional Research Service, which provides research and analysis to lawmakers.
And of course the real cost.The $12 billion a month "burn rate" includes $10 billion for Iraq and almost $2 billion for Afghanistan, plus other minor costs. That's higher than Pentagon estimates earlier this year of $10 billion a month for both operations. Two years ago, the average monthly cost was about $8 billion. [emphasis added]
As of this morning, 3,606 dead American troops (3,598 confirmed by the DoD).
Yer doing a heckova job, dubya. Heckova job.
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This is a scandal! Outrageous! It's costing us almost $140 million just to kill a single American soldier! Certainly Bush, Cheney, Gates, and Petraeus can figure out a way to destroy the U. S. military less expensively than that.
The Media Lied — Iraq Did Meet Many Benchmarks
Nice off-topic, Mein Heir.
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