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As benchmarks within political, military, and economic lines of effort were achieved in Iraq, the Bush administration felt it was making progress. This chapter shows how assessing progress within bureaucratic silos allowed the Bush administration to remain overly optimistic about a favorable and durable outcome, even though violence intensified.