But Congress said, well if you're going to do the surge, there's going to be benchmarks, we're going to measure progress. And so my office owned the measuring the benchmarks. I owned benchmark, I think number eight was the Baghdad security plan. And within that bag of security plan, I worked with a great state department officer and some others to put together a joint U. (17:20–17:23)
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Asserts that Michael Baumgartner was responsible for the Baghdad security plan benchmark during the Iraq surge.
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