Here come the benchmarks – From the NY Times “Plan sets series of goals for Iraq leaders”: “Without saying what the specific penalties for failing to achieve the goals would be, American officials insisted that they intended to hold the Iraqis to a realistic timetable for action, but the Americans and Iraqis have agreed on many of the objectives before, only to fall considerably short.” In other words: these are the benchmarks. If you fail to achieve them, we’ll set new ones.