lily
05-10-2007, 06:31 PM
I'm really curious to see how those people that said benchmarks were so bad last week, defend benchmarks being good this week?
http://www.cnn.com/2007/POLITICS/05/10/us.iraq.ap/index.html?eref=rss_topstories
Bush says he's OK with Iraq benchmarks
POSTED: 1:50 p.m. EDT, May 10, 2007
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Bush, under growing political pressure, said
Thursday the White House will seek agreement with Congress on benchmarks to
measure progress in Iraq.
At the same time, the president pledged he would veto a bill, expected to be
passed by the House later in the day, that would cut of funding for the war
by the end of July.
"We reject that idea. It won't work," the president said.
At the same time, Bush pressured Iraqi leaders to move swiftly on a number
of measures that could be used as benchmarks, including legislation to share
Iraq's oil wealth, hold provincial elections and update the constitution.
"They have got to speed up their clock," the president said. U.S. officials
have urged Iraq's parliament to abandon plans to take a two-month vacation
this summer.
Bush's willingness to put benchmarks in a war-funding bill represented a
shift in position by the president.
"One message I have heard from people of both parties is that benchmarks
make sense and I agree," Bush said. He said his chief of staff, Joshua
Bolten, would talk with congressional leaders "to find common ground" on
benchmarks.
White House officials decided Bush, after refusing to discuss his
negotiating stand, should change course and declare what he is for since he
been emphatic about what he is against.
http://www.cnn.com/2007/POLITICS/05/10/us.iraq.ap/index.html?eref=rss_topstories
Bush says he's OK with Iraq benchmarks
POSTED: 1:50 p.m. EDT, May 10, 2007
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Bush, under growing political pressure, said
Thursday the White House will seek agreement with Congress on benchmarks to
measure progress in Iraq.
At the same time, the president pledged he would veto a bill, expected to be
passed by the House later in the day, that would cut of funding for the war
by the end of July.
"We reject that idea. It won't work," the president said.
At the same time, Bush pressured Iraqi leaders to move swiftly on a number
of measures that could be used as benchmarks, including legislation to share
Iraq's oil wealth, hold provincial elections and update the constitution.
"They have got to speed up their clock," the president said. U.S. officials
have urged Iraq's parliament to abandon plans to take a two-month vacation
this summer.
Bush's willingness to put benchmarks in a war-funding bill represented a
shift in position by the president.
"One message I have heard from people of both parties is that benchmarks
make sense and I agree," Bush said. He said his chief of staff, Joshua
Bolten, would talk with congressional leaders "to find common ground" on
benchmarks.
White House officials decided Bush, after refusing to discuss his
negotiating stand, should change course and declare what he is for since he
been emphatic about what he is against.