Petraeus: Progress "Significant But Uneven"

Petraeus: "Significiant but uneven security progress......capabilities of Iraqi forces have grown"....
but other areas "unacceptable..." .... "Still, security in Iraq is ... significantly better than it was 15 months ago when Iraq was on the verge of civil war..." ... "threat posed by Al Qaeda in Iraq has decreased significantly..."..... Iranian-backed "Special Groups" pose the "greatest long-term threat".....shows charts with downward trendlines in civilian deaths and violent incidents....highlights "sons of Iraq" program...says they've helped the US find more IEDs/weapons caches in '08 than in all of '06.....provides highlights of "Anaconda" strategy against AQI, which he calls a "major source of instability in Iraq."

Comments

My anaconda don't want none unless you got buns, hun.

Posted by tinisoli | April 8, 2008 10:10 AM

Anaconda was the code name of an operation in Afganistan, which had a hand in pushing AQ to Pakistan.

Posted by jjj | April 8, 2008 10:25 AM

Any discussion by Petreaus about the ethnic cleansing that has already occurred, especially in Baghdad?

Sounds like the same old, same old. Let's stick it out for just a while longer and see what happens. That's been the Bush strategery for the past 5 years. Now it's McCain's strategery.

Posted by LFC | April 8, 2008 10:31 AM

Petraeus. Not Petreaus.

Posted by Dave | April 8, 2008 10:34 AM

Until I hear otherwise, my default position is the same as Bongo the Rabbit's (from Life is Hell) reaction to a string of garbage spewed at him in the classrom: "LIES LIES LIES."

Posted by norbizness | April 8, 2008 10:54 AM