1.0 link 55945 <![CDATA[Why Bush's Balanced Assessment of Iraq is Utterly Unbalanced]]> http://www.huffingtonpost.com/arianna-huffington/why-bushs-balanced-assess_b_55945.html So to hear the president and the White House spin it (and the media dutiful report it), the interim progress report on Iraq the administration will submit to Congress today is "a mixed bag."

According to Bush's scorecard, progress on eight of the 18 benchmarks set by Congress in May has been "satisfactory," on another eight it has been "unsatisfactory," and two are too close to call.

And this, according to the president, "is a cause for optimism."

That's like a...

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