Beancounters should never run wars. I thought the U.S. learned learn it's lesson the first time with the former wiz kid McNamara, but no we repeat the same mistake all over again with the dethawing Rumsfeld from his cold war cryogenic time capsule to botch another war this time in Iraq. Wars can not be Won on the cheap.
Tough words like Resolve and Steadfast are not going to win the war either,and answers like tough work and workin hard don't provide sufficent information to a voter who is looking for answers about a plan in Iraq.
The bottomline is we either go full force or pull out, and Bush has been playing politics with this war from the start. What is the objective over there? Doesn't reconstruction usually start after the complete dececimation of the enemy and the war has been won. You can't rebuild a country when it was composed of 3 tribes that where held together artficialy by a dictator. The Bush administration failed to learned about the enemy just like Jfk/LBJ, they are also refusing to acknowledge the reality of how bad it is over there (55 dead everyday) is common now. Bush needs to be more specific in the next 30 days, and not speak in simple general themes. What is the goal and how do you plan on achieving it period.
Workin hard is fine on the ranch but it doesn't cut it at the White House.