The WaPo
says:
[Poland's] Kwasniewski's complaints about prewar intelligence added to a rough week for the Bush administration, which is working to highlight achievements in Iraq one year after the invasion. Bush will mark today's anniversary with an address to dozens of diplomats from nations considered anti-terrorist allies.(...)
"The Madrid result was horrible news for the Bush administration in every possible way," said Philip H. Gordon, a member of President Clinton's National Security Council. "Spain was the poster child for the coalition. An edifice is coming crashing down before us."
In an interview to appear in today's Le Monde, French Foreign Minister Dominique de Villepin said that "the Iraq war hasn't led to a more stable world."
"Let's stick to the facts," de Villepin said, according to a French government transcript. "Terrorism didn't exist in Iraq before the war. Today, that country is one of the main centers of terrorism worldwide."
Administration officials have worked this week to send a message to voters and allies that confronting Saddam Hussein has made the world more secure.
Add to that the Medicare scandal, the Pew poll and the Kerry fundraising out there and here, and it's not such a bad week after all.