the Sugar Conspiracy

Thursday, January 13, 2005

Lowering the bar

With just over two weeks until the Iraq election, the United States is lowering its expectations for both the turnout and the results of the vote, increasingly emphasizing other steps over the next year as more important to Iraq's political transformation, according to U.S. officials.

The Bush administration played down voter turnout yesterday in determining the election's legitimacy and urged Americans not to get bogged in a numbers game in judging the balloting, a reflection of the growing concern over how much the escalating insurgency and the problem of Sunni participation may affect the vote.

Whoa! That doesn't sound like the Mr. Confidence I know... Now that things aren't quite going the way President Don't Worry Be Happy wants them to, all of a sudden the expectations are changing. I seem to remember another situation where that happened as well...

And anyway, we don't want to get bogged down in a numbers game.

(via Tbogg.)

posted by chris at 11:19 AM
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