This is typical of the New York Times and Washington Post Sunday morning scoops that get over-played on the Sunday talk shows. All of the Sunday "Advance the Dem. Party Line" interview shows this week were abuzz with those supposed story of "lowered expectations." Of course they all rely on some unnamed official in some unnamed department claiming to know the administration's thinking on things.
This is probably another partisan CIA agent trying to make the administration look bad by going off the record to try to represent himself as a ersatz spokesman for the Bush White House. Notice these cowards will never just represent who they are, but hide behind their status as a "Washington official" to lend weight to the opinions they spout.
When one of these jerks actually goes on record using their name and job title, then I'll take them seriously. At least then we can examine whether they're actually in a position to know the administration's thinking on Iraq. That they do not reveal themselves tells me a lot about what they actually know, or don't know.
Yet the slovenly lapdog media eats this crap up and in their usual unquestioning way don't bother to ask who this guy is who how he knows what he purports to know. All in the service of their need to create division and chaos around America's Iraq policy.
Go back and read the article, it's the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Genneral Myers that's talking and in the article pointing out the the media doesn't get it.