Progress in Iraq is Slow, But it's Progress

Doug's Blog #1

Article "Report finds little progress in Iraq" from http://www.cnn.com/2007/POLITICS/09/04/gao.iraq/index.html

When Congress set a war-spending bill in May they put the Government Accountability Office (GAO) in charge of keeping track of the money and making sure it's used for progress towards Iraq. The report they just gave shows the so far 11 of the 18 goals have not been met and 4 were only partially met. I think that we as a country don't have enough patients for the Iraqi's. Were in the age of microwaves and fast food where everything is the way we want it right when we want it. The spending bill and goal were set back in May of this year! It hasn't even been half a year and Congress is criticizing that the war and troop surge are failing. Give it some time. You can't expect a war torn country to be westernized in a few years. Sure one can say that we shouldn't even be in Iraq but the fact is we are and we need to stay there until the job is done. I think that meeting 3 of the 18 goals is good for 5 months. The goals they did meet were, ensuring rights of the minorities in their government, set up security stations in Baghdad, and setting up commitees working on insuring security in Baghdad. It sounds to me like they are well on their way to a successful democracy. Giving power to the people and equal representation in their government. Securing Baghdad will serve as a model for the rest of the country to follow. American's need to stop being so cridical of the way and looking at the negatives always and look at some of the postive things going on.