But in six more months, I'm sure they'll hit all the benchmarks

NYTimes - The Bush administration, which issued a series of political goals for the Iraqi government to meet by this month, is now tacitly acknowledging that the goals will take significantly longer to achieve......

A “notional political timeline” that the administration provided to Congress in January had called for most of the objectives to be met by this month. Four of the significant objectives are final approval of an oil law regulating distribution of oil revenues and foreign investment in the oil industry; reversal of the de-Baathification laws that are widely blamed for alienating Sunnis by driving them out of government ministries; the holding of local elections; and reform of Iraq’s Constitution.