Ouch.

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.

Ten to one that Bush calls for more patience.  He’ll also laud some obscure metric of progress.

On a related note, today Senator Olympia Snowe joined a growing list of Republicans who want the war to be drawn to a close.

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