Pentagon report: Iraq oil law, related laws stuck; Progress in oil and electricity sectors not necessarily sustainable…

A Pentagon report says four key oil-related laws in Iraq are "stalled" in political gridlock while gains in oil and power production could be lost, Ben Lando reports for United Press International. The quarterly report to Congress, "Measuring Security and Stability in Iraq," released Tuesday, said the law commonly known as the oil law is the furthest along the political process -- it made it to Parliament but is stuck in the Energy Committee.

The Pentagon’s head of U.S. Central Command and the State Department’s Iraq coordinator were grilled by members of Congress this week who took the decidedly "blame Iraq" tone — not wholly unwarranted, some say — in expressing frustration with progress in the country five years after the invasion.