it 'criticizes'

it's soft. it doesn't say he, well they, LIED. they are DIRECTLY responsible for the deaths of 4,1.04 of our men and women. DIRECTLY responsible and it was for NO reason other than to line their pockets with both oil money and the blood of our sons and daughters and sisters and brothers and mothers and fathers. yet, here we sit. nothing gets done. how can we sleep at night knowing those responsible for crimes against humanity, war crimes and goddess only knows what else...well they are not only free, they will NEVER be brought to justice
Government Study Criticizes Bush Administration’s Measures of Progress in Iraq
By JAMES GLANZ
Beyond the declines in overall violence in Iraq, several crucial measures the Bush administration uses to demonstrate economic, political and security progress are either incorrect or far more mixed than the administration has acknowledged, according to a report released Monday by the Government Accountability Office.
Over all, the report says, the American plan for a stable Iraq lacks a strategic framework that meshes with the administration’s goals, is falling out of touch with the realities on the ground and contains serious flaws in its operational guidelines.
Newly declassified data in the report on countrywide attacks in May shows that increases in violence during March and April that were touched off by an Iraqi government assault on militias in Basra have given way to a calmer period. Numbers of daily attacks have been comparable to those earlier in the year, representing about a 70 percent decline since June 2007, the data shows.
While those figures confirm the assessments by American military commanders that many of the security improvements that first became apparent last fall are still holding, a number of the figures that have been used to show broader progress in Iraq are either misleading or simply incorrect, the report says.........