Iraq war
Wednesday, Sep 12, 2007 5:48 PM UTC
Those disappearing benchmarks, again
Tony Snow then, Tony Snow now.
White House press secretary Tony Snow, May 10, 2007: “Keep in mind, benchmarks … are not new. The president talked about them in [the] State of the Union. We talked about them in Amman in November. Secretary Rice put a list of 17 together in a letter to Sen. Levin. So you do need to have metrics.”
White House press secretary Tony Snow, Sept. 12, 2007: “No, benchmarks were something that Congress wanted to use as a metric. And we’re going to produce a report. But the fact is that the situation is bigger and more complex, and you need to look at the whole picture.”
Tim Grieve is a senior writer and the author of Salon's War Room blog. More Tim Grieve.
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