Poor Carl Levin. First the chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee insists on getting a list of the fabled “benchmarks” that President Bush said the Iraqi government had agreed to, only to see that the actual benchmarks are pretty insubstantial (“November 2006: Approve a Flag, Emblem and National Anthem Law”) and none were met. Now, in his press briefing today, White House spokesman Tony Snow derided the very idea that the Iraqi government ought to be held to its stated commitments:
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=181537