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US not satisfied with pace of political progress in Baghdad - Bush
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| News Date | Friday, December 21, 2007 11:00:00 AM UTC0:0 |
| Description | The United States is not satisfied with the pace of political progress in Baghdad, President George W. Bush said on Thursday.
"Are we satisfied with the progress in Baghdad?" No," Bush said during a White House press conference. "But to say nothing is happening is just simply not the case." Asked what benchmarks the Iraqi government can meet that would change the pace of progress toward political reconciliation in Iraq, Bush said there is a functioning government in Iraq.
"They did pass a budget last year," he said of the Iraqi government. "They are in the process of passing their budget this year. I am pleased to report that there has been two readings of a de-Baathification law to the Council of Assemblies." However, Bush acknowledged that members of the Iraqi government have a lot of work to do.
"I am not suggesting that we should not as a government continue to press them," Bush said. "What I am suggesting, though, there is a functioning government." The United States will continue to press the government of Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki on a de-Baath-fication law, provincial election laws, power sharing with the central government and the provinces and an oil law, Bush said.
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