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White House plays down expectations on report about Iraq progress |
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07:25, July 10, 2007 |
The Bush administration on Monday lowered expectations from a report due this Sunday about political, economic and security progress in Iraq.
"I'm not sure everybody's going to get an A on the first report, " White House spokesman Tony Snow said at a news briefing.
The Congress has required the administration to submit reports on Iraq's political, economic and security progress in July and September respectively.
"The first is a snapshot at the beginning stage," Snow said of the U.S. military buildup in Iraq.
"Again, some of the forces in the surge have just now become operational in the last two weeks. It is premature to try to draw any broad-based conclusions on what they've done so far," he said.
Bush announced his "surge" plan early this year, by sending about 30,000 additional American troops to Iraq to help quell violence and provide security in the war-torn country, and the last contingent of the troops were deployed last month.
Snow said there would be "a series of reports on benchmarks," on a number of benchmarks that have been agreed by the Congress and the administration about how to judge where things were progressing in Iraq -- "some probably satisfactory, some probably unsatisfactory."
Source: Xinhua
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