President Bush acknowledged Monday that the United States had achieved only “mixed” success in training Iraqi troops to secure the country, and said that it was “unacceptable” that some Iraqi units had fled as soon as they faced hostile fire. With the first elections in Iraq six weeks away, Mr. Bush’s public criticism of how the Iraqis had performed reflected mounting concern, voiced from the White House, the Pentagon and Capitol Hill, that the strategy for training 125,000 Iraqi forces to secure the country is failing.Full Story