Benchmarks?

This is what 10 billion a month, and thousands of dead and wounded Americans gets us;

A progress report on Iraq will conclude that the U.S.-backed government in Baghdad has not met any of its targets for political, economic and other reform, speeding up the Bush administration's reckoning on what to do next, a U.S. official said Monday.

One likely result of the report will be a vastly accelerated debate among President Bush's top aides on withdrawing troops and scaling back the U.S. presence in Iraq.

The "pivot point" for addressing the matter will no longer be Sept. 15, as initially envisioned, when a full report on Bush's so-called "surge" plan is due, but instead will come this week when the interim mid-July assessment is released, the official said.

.. and the right wing wants more of it? Fuck them..

Start bringing our troops home NOW - because nothing they are doing there is going to change a fucking thing.

Then we can start the impeachment hearings and war crimes trials.