That's another interesting hypothetical situation. I happen to agree with the President that Iraq is more unstable. Does that qualify as "an uneducated attack against the president" ?
Why should President Bush apologize for the 3000 troops that have died fighting terrorists and insurgents, while liberating the people of Iraq? Why? You said he should, so why?
I don't think Bush's statement about instability is a big deal. It's doesn't take a foreign policy expert to figure out that Baghdad is more violent and unstable than it was under Saddam's police state. Everybody knows that Baghdad has been made less stable overall in the short run, but we've also eliminated systematic mass murder throughout Iraq by Saddam's regime. The big issue is how stable and democratic Iraq will be in the long run, and long-term stabilization is the goal of this troop surge.