the new goals are set

they are the same (well most are) as the OLD (meet the new boss - same as the old boss) goals that WEREN'T MET.

this is INSANITY. we are letting the lunatics run the asylum (no offense to those who really DO reside in asylums)

NYT: Bush's new policy will set benchmarks Iraq must meet; Many 'carried over from old list' but 'never met'

A senior administration official revealed elements of Bush's new Iraq policy to The New York Times which the president is expected to discuss in a speech on a still undetermined day this week.
"President Bush’s new Iraq policy will establish a series of goals that the Iraqi government will be expected to meet to try to ease sectarian tensions and stabilize the country politically and economically, senior administration officials said Sunday," Michael R. Gordon and Jeff Zeleny write for the Times. "Among these 'benchmarks' are steps that would draw more Sunnis into the political process, finalize a long-delayed measure on the distribution of oil revenue and ease the government’s policy toward former Baath Party members, the officials said."
The paper notes that many of the goals had been "carried over from the old list of benchmarks," which Iraq "never met."........

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