It looks like it might be more smoke and mirrors from the administration:

The Bush administration, in its last so-called Iraq “benchmark” report, used questionable financial data to assert that the Baghdad government was making progress in managing its budget, a new study says.

The study released Tuesday by the Government Accountability Office focused specifically on whether Iraqis were spending their capital budget, that is money for infrastructure needed to boost the country’s lagging economic growth and improve poor public services.

The idiots out there who still trust Bush and his band of merry criminals will tell us how this is a lie. Why? Because Bush will say so. It’s amazing how an entire government apparently conspires to undermine the President. This resembles the NIE report a lot in that the White House will say whatever it wants to promote their own twisted agenda.