The Air Force has less capabilty to strike than it did 12 months ago.
It can sustain a short campaign, but not a long one. The entire defense budget has been focused on the Army and the Iraq war.
Then Bush needs to get his ass in gear, juggle some budget priorities and find a way to have the job completed by Inauguration Day 2009.
Otherwise, the Democrats may well have the White House, the Iranian religious fanatics with a suicide worship may have The Bomb by 2010 and with The Bomb will come Islamist control of 70% of the World's know oil reserves which will not be taken away from them unless we escalate to the nuclear option.
We are not in Iraq to spread Democracy & Freedom. We are in Iraq to protect a vital strategic interest, namely, the economic carotid artery of modern Western Civilization ..... Access to 70% of the World's know oil reserves.
BOTH Saddam Hussein and Islamist Iran threatened that vital strategic interest. Both need to be dealt with.
Bush needs to lead and get the job done.