Seven gunmen also died in the fight, a rare open street battle between American troops and policemen. Washington has demanded the government purge its police force of militants, and U.S. and Iraqi authorities have arrested officers in the past for militia links. But the Bush administration said in an assessment Thursday that progress on that front was "unsatisfactory."
Definition of
Total:
1. constituting or comprising the whole; entire; whole: the total expenditure.
2. of or pertaining to the whole of something: the total effect of a play.
3. complete in extent or degree; absolute; unqualified; utter: a total failure.
4. involving all aspects, elements, participants, resources, etc.; unqualified; all-out: total war.
Definition linkBased on the title of this article and the quote above, I would have to determine that the only total failure here is the writer of this article. He is a failure in not being consistent with his articles. Here we have an article depicting how much of a failure the Iraqi Gov't is based on a report from the US Gov't, it's ironically hypocritical for the writer of this article to go and write an article Titled
Iraq Can Defend itself PM Said where he claims that Iraq is ready to take over. THis guy must be the stupidest person in the world. He claims not to be obsessed with Bush, he claims to have no hatred towards Bush, he even claims he does not just look at news articles that talk bad about the Bush administration. But, and that's a big

these 2 articles prove what I have always said about the writing style of the resident troll, Bush hater, Old Col Gene.