Progress report on Iraq to conclude that Iraqi government has met ZERO of its targets. Zero.

From AP:

A progress report on Iraq will conclude that the U.S.-backed government in Baghdad has not met any of its targets for political, economic and other reform, speeding up the Bush administration's reckoning on what to do next, a U.S. official said Monday.

One likely result of the report will be a vastly accelerated debate among President Bush's top aides on withdrawing troops and scaling back the U.S. presence in Iraq.

The "pivot point" for addressing the matter will no longer be Sept. 15, as initially envisioned, when a full report on Bush's so-called "surge" plan is due, but instead will come this week when the interim mid-July assessment is released, the official said.

You better believe that the White House would rather address the issue now than in September - come September, Bush will have even fewer Republicans supporting him. He's going to try to lock in some compromise "stay the course" policy now when his hand is better than it will be in two months. A real fascinating turnabout from the White House's tune of the past month, claiming that September was no longer the date on which we would revisit our Iraq strategy. While the White House was pushing for a later date, they've just embraced an earlier one.

Full panic mode.