US ambassador: Progress in Iraq extremely disappointing

August 21, 2007
US ambassador: Progress in Iraq extremely disappointing

BAGHDAD - Iraqi political progress has been 'extremely disappointing,' the US ambassador in Baghdad said on Tuesday two weeks before he and the top American military commander in Iraq are to report to Congress.

"Progress on national level issues has been extremely disappopinting and frustrating to all concerned... to us, to Iraqis, and to the Iraqi leadership itself," Ryan Crocker told reporters in the Iraqi capital.