Click on the left for a goal-by-goal breakdown of the September report as detailed by a senior administration official.
Read below for a general overview of the White House's Iraq progress reports.
September 2007 assessment:
Satisfactory: 9
Unsatisfactory: 7
Mixed results: 2
July 2007 assessment:
Satisfactory: 8
Unsatisfactory: 8
Mixed results: 2";
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The report said Iraq has made satisfactory progress completing nine goals.
— Enacting and putting in place legislation on de-Baathification.*
— Forming a constitutional review committee and then completing the review.
— Enacting and putting in place legislation on procedures to form semiautonomous regions.
— Establishing supporting political, media, economic, and services committees to help with Baghdad’s security plan.
— Providing three trained and ready Iraqi brigades to support Baghdad operations.
— Ensuring that the Baghdad security plan will not provide a safe haven for outlaws, regardless of sectarian or political affiliation, as Bush says Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki has pledged to do.
— Establishing all of the planned joint security stations in neighborhoods across Baghdad.
— Ensuring that the rights of minority political parties in the Iraqi legislature are protected.
— Allocating and spending $10 billion in Iraqi revenues for reconstruction projects, including delivery of essential services, on an equitable basis.
*The report stated this was the only benchmark that showed improvement since the initial assessment in July.";
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The report said Iraq has made unsatisfactory progress completing five goals.
— Enacting and putting in place legislation to ensure the equitable distribution of hydrocarbon resources without regard to the sect or ethnicity of recipients; enacting and putting in place legislation to ensure that the energy resources of Iraq benefit Sunni Arabs, Shia Arabs, Kurds, and other Iraqi citizens in an equitable manner.
— Providing Iraqi commanders with all authorities to execute this plan and to make tactical and operational decisions, in consultation with U.S commanders, without political intervention, to include the authority to pursue all extremists, including Sunni insurgents and Shiite militias.
— Ensuring that Iraq’s security forces are providing evenhanded enforcement of the law.
— Increasing the number of Iraqi security forces units capable of operating independently.
— Ensuring that Iraq’s political authorities are not undermining or making false accusations against members of the Iraqi Security Forces.";
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The report said Iraq has made mixed, but still unsatisfactory, progress completing two goals.
— Reducing the level of sectarian violence in Iraq and eliminating militia control of local security.
— Enacting and putting in place legislation establishing an Independent High Electoral Commission, provincial elections law, provincial council authorities and a date for provincial elections.
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The report said it was too early to assess the progress Iraq has made completing two goals.
— Enacting and putting in place legislation addressing amnesty.
— Enacting and putting in place legislation establishing a strong militia disarmament program to ensure that such security forces are accountable only to the central government and loyal to the constitution.
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