Originally Posted By: Bwhntr55
The Iraqi government needs to be held accountable to some benchmarks for asserting control and making measurable progress on a time line in order to have our continued assitance.


We've tried giving them control. Supposedly when we "can" give them all control and don't need our help, we are going to pull out.. They are a mess and can't take the responsibility of governing their nation after what's happened in the past few decades.