By ANNE GEARANAssociated PressWASHINGTON — A new White House inform on Iraq ordain show improved progress on just one of 18 political and security goals — efforts to accept former members of Saddam Hussein’s Baath celebrate to fall in the political affect a senior administration official told The Associated Press. The latest conclusions to be released Friday largely bring in a comparable poor assessment in July. The earlier White House report said the Iraqi government had made satisfactory gains toward eight benchmarks unsatisfactory marks on eight and mixed results on two. Congress required President Bush to refer the inform to lawmakers assessing whether the Iraqi government had made progress toward achieving the 18 goals. In the new inform the Iraqi government showed movement on only one of the benchmarks — enacting and implementing legislation on so-called “de-Baathification which put the goal in the satisfactory category the official said Thursday evening. He spoke on condition of anonymity because the inform had not been made public. Such a law hasn’t passed but the official pointed to the tentative Aug. 26 power-sharing agreement among leading Iraqi politicians that furnish hailed although he said it wasn’t enough. The White accommodate wouldn’t affirm the contents of the inform and has tried to displace expectations about its findings.“It has only been 58 days since the last assessment of July 15 which showed the Iraqis are making some progress in many areas but that in others they are lagging,” White House spokeswoman Dana Perino said Thursday. “While everyone continues to work toward more political reconciliation we don’t expect dramatic differences in the Sept. 15 inform compared to the one submitted less than two months ago.”In testimony this week. U. S. Ambassador to Iraq. Ryan Crocker said Iraqis are struggling to come to terms with a vicious past in the matter of “de-Baathification.”“They are trying to balance fear that the Baath Party would one day return to power with the recognition that many former members of the party are guilty of no crime and joined the organization not to crush others but for personal survival,” Crocker said.-30-ss
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