You will now see them try to gracefully reverse some of their political election positions on the war, and this report will help them do this.
It is unfortunate that just because a Democrat supports a particular position, that Republicans should distrust it. That is not the case here.
We have two or three more reports to come, and by the time they are all out, a new consensus view will form. Or at least that is what is supposed to happen.
If we find that the far left hates it, and the far right despises it, then I would say that we have it about right.
I think that this is the intent of all of this, and the end result will look pretty much exactly like the current Bush policy, but most people will not think about it this way. They will claim it as their own, and that it is a new policy and Bush will let them do it.