Table of Comments
Total Comments in Report: 92
- General Comments (9)
- Introduction (0)
- Part I (0)
- Part II
- A. The External Approach:Building an International Consensus (0)
- 1. The New Diplomatic Offensive (4)
- 2. The Iraq International Support Group (4)
- 3. Dealing with Iran and Syria (7)
- 4. The Wider Regional Context (9)
- B. The Internal Approach: Helping Iraqis Help Themselves (0)
- 1. Performance on Milestones (3)
- 2. National Reconciliation (6)
- 3. Security and Military Forces (4)
- 4. Police and Criminal Justice (2)
- 5. The Oil Sector (1)
- 6. U.S. Economic and Reconstruction Assistance (1)
- 7. Budget Preparation, Presentation, and Review (1)
- 8. U.S. Personnel (2)
- 9. Intelligence (2)
- Appendices (0)
No figure better illustrates the Bush administration’s essential lack of seriousness in Iraq. We have previously been informed in this report that the conduct of the war costs some $2 billion a week. Yet here is the Study Group, begging the administration to increase U.S. economic assistance to all of $5 billion a year–in other words, the equivalent of what it costs to run the war for half a month. The $753 million authorized for emergency economic assistance in 2006, mentioned in the paragraph above, is the equivalent of roughly 2.5 days of conducting the war.