Well, duh! As if the Pres wants to stay longer than is needed?
His goal was to remove Saddam and Sons, who had not lived up to their surrender agreement, with their billions for WMD, the M.O. to use them, or give them away, and give 25 million souls a chance at a civilized society, who had suffered under a "containment" policy that was not working, and was about to be removed.
Cheney, Rumsfled and Rice could not agree more, and they will say it within the proper timetable and with the proper diplomacy.
The stated goal was to remove Saddam and sons. How long are we in Korea? Germany? Serbia? That is the prototype of this sort of thing. We are there for the next generation at least.