Excellent information. In an attempt to head off laundering by the White House, this report has been made public in its draft form even before it’s presented to Congress. However, it still won’t affect Bush’s September 15th “Outstanding Success in Iraq” report to Congress that will doubtless be supported by highly classified data to which we mere Americans won’t be privy. After all, we’re only the ones paying for the debacle.

The story presents a pretty mixed picture presented by the General Accounting office (GAO), but given the mandate from Congress of an up or down vote on the objectives the the GAO was constrained to only give 3 objectives an up vote. My issue is with the lack of a big picture and multiple viewpoints. How did the GAO gather its information? Where its information differs from the DoD why is that? It seems a pretty one sided story whose sole intent is to give Congressmen who want to pull out of Iraq now, something to hang their reason on in case Patraeus' report in September isn't negative enough.

GAO report was operating under guidelines that prejudiced the results, as it usuallydoes. another non-story lifted to the level of news by the ever-biased MSM. the problem is not that they are liberal, but that they lack wisdom. perhaps the problem lies with the editors who do not edit for clarity but instead act as commissars.