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Bush's Proposal of 'Benchmarks' for Iraq Sounds Familiar |
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Posted by -Chuck
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Wednesday, 25 October 2006 |
By Thomas E. Ricks
The text of President Bush's news conference yesterday ran to nearly 10,000 words, but what may have been more significant were the things he did not say.
The president talked repeatedly about "benchmarks" for progress in Iraq, using that word 13 times. But he did not discuss the consequences of the Iraqi government missing those targets. Such a question, he said, was "hypothetical."
That response left unclear how the benchmarks would be different from previous times when the United States has set out intentions, only to back down.
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