Complete failure

According to the AP, the interim progress report on Iraq will state that the government missed all of its reform targets.

WASHINGTON — 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 reforms, speeding up the Bush administration's reckoning on what to do next, a U.S. official said Monday.

On the bright side (and I had to look hard for one), no one can argue that Iraq is anything but a total fucking disaster. The denial thing is over and done. Maybe now we can stop arguing about the facts and start to figure out where to go from here…