this is a solution

if you don't like the bad news, JUST CHANGE IT TO SOME BETTER NEWS. who cares if it's the truth or not? certainly NOT the american people. they've kept their collective mouths shut for this entire administration's tragic, evil, immoral and illegal reign (of blood)

ah, perhaps millions of iraqis care though. those whose family members have been tortured and killed. those who are now refugees in foreign lands. those who are still in iraq but have no water or food or electricty. let's ask THEM how those benchmarks are coming along

Pentagon Challenges GAO's Report on Iraq

By Karen DeYoung Washington Post Staff Writer
The Pentagon has disputed parts of a progress report on Iraq drafted by the Government Accountability Office, and asked that some of the assessment's failing grades on key political and security benchmarks be changed before the final report is made public next week, a Defense spokesman said yesterday.
"We have provided the GAO with information which we believe will lead them to conclude that a few of the benchmark grades should be upgraded from 'not met' to 'met,' " spokesman Geoff Morrell said. He declined to specify which grades he was citing.......