Remember the "CEO President" talk that we used to hear about in the early years? Any CEO worth his salt would have started with benchmarks from the beginning but not W, the guy who previously just ran companies into the ground and lost other peoples money and now does the same with countries. Shouldn't benchmarks have been there from the beginning? Why now? How seriously will anyone take them when they know he is banking his future, both in the White House and for history, on Iraq?
Citing unnamed senior administration officials, the newspaper said these "benchmarks" will call for drawing more Sunnis into the political process, finalizing a long-delayed measure on the distribution of oil revenue and easing the government's policy toward former Baath Party members.So we are 3,000+ dead Americans and tens (if not hundreds) of thousands of dead Iraqis not to mention billions spent and now he wants benchmarks. This kind of leadership will be taught in classes for years as an example of what not to do. If Bush had been paying attention during the Vietnam War instead of being "young and irresponsible" (is that GOP code for blowing coke and being an alcoholic? - just curious with all of the Obama and coke attacks flying about in GOP circles) he might have noticed that the US did something quite similar in Vietnam, throwing money around and failing to set benchmarks while the situation deteriorated.
