The administation today sadly has almost zero public credibility on Iraq because facts on the ground don't meet up with expectations set up for them before and after the war.
It shouldn't be this way and I understand you and the administation were just trying to show things are going good and we are doing a good job and we are going to win.
We are going to stabilize Iraq, but it is going to be long and very bloodly. Stabilizing Iraq will help the entire world and will usher in a new era in the Middle East. I am 100% sure that certain people in the White House wish to God not that they could go back and have stopped the invasion of Iraq, but that they could go back and change their PR strategy back in 2003.
I think that certain people wish they had not tried to split the difference between the policy of the Department of Defence and that of the Department of State and the CIA.