What Is The Iraqi Roadmap?

Do you know what the Road Map for peace in Iraq is?

How far along are we on that process?  Are we two steps away, or 10 steps away?  Is it a detailed plan, or a generic one?

After reading all of the news coverage on Iraq recently, I was thinking that it seemed that it all was focused on the national government.  Due to a lack of troop power, interest, press coverage, or other reasons, there hasn't been much talk about establishing local governments in Iraq.  As it seems logical that this should be done first, I was wondering where it fell in Bush's "road map".

However, that led me to a far more interesting question: What is Bush's Road Map?  Have you seen it?  Do you know what Bush is trying to do in Iraq?

Here's Paul Wolfowitz's take on the road map for peace in Iraq.  It has 5 stages:

1. The Interim Iraqi Government took power on June 28, 2004.
   
2. Security - This step involves training an Iraqi army.
   
3. Rebuilding Infrastructure - This step involves rebuilding the electricity system, schools, hospitals, water, and of course oil production.
   
4. International Support for Iraq's Transition to Democracy - Wolfowitz sites UN Resolutions and the 31 nations (as of June 9, 2004) in Iraq as evidence of this.  I have no idea what he's going for there.
   
5. Iraq Constitution - This is supposed to be voted on by the end of 2005.

According to Wolfowitz's article, this is the entirety of the road map in Iraq.  However, this doesn't give anything in the way of details.  How large an army are we training?  How many schools are we building?  What international support do we want?  How much still is there to be done before we have exhausted this road map?

I don't see a detailed plan available at http://whitehouse.gov for what we are doing in Iraq.  Bush did say the following in his speech Tuesday (June 28, 2005):

A little over a year ago, I spoke to the Nation and described our Coalition's goal in Iraq. I said that America's mission in Iraq is to defeat an enemy and give strength to a friend - a free, representative government that is an ally in the war on terror, and a beacon of hope in a part of the world that is desperate for reform. I outlined the steps we would take to achieve this goal: We would hand authority over to a sovereign Iraqi government ... we would help Iraqis hold free elections by January 2005 ... we would continue helping Iraqis rebuild their nation's infrastructure and economy ... we would encourage more international support for Iraq's democratic transition ... and we would enable Iraqis to take increasing responsibility for their own security and stability.

This is basically the same plan described by Rumsfeld last year.  And most of the points described last year have been completed.  But this doesn't mean that we are done in Iraq.  Bush has a new plan:

To complete the mission, we will continue to hunt down the terrorists and insurgents. To complete the mission, we will prevent al-Qaida and other foreign terrorists from turning Iraq into what Afghanistan was under the Taliban - a safe haven from which they could launch attacks on America and our friends. And the best way to complete the mission is to help Iraqis build a free nation that can govern itself, sustain itself, and defend itself.

Our goal now in Iraq is to .. defeat the terrorists!  Nothing more.  And probably Bush claims he can't describe the process anymore because it would be "helping the terrorists".  He describes our progress in his speech, but doesn't give any new ideas.  As for politically, Bush solely mentions the new constitution in Iraq.  (For more detailed analysis of Bush's speech, I recommend Soj's diary on it)

So this is what I can find about Bush's plan in Iraq.  If anybody has any more detailed information, please post it in the comments.

As for why the media is accepting "defeat the terrorists and write a constitution" as a plan for victory, I don't know.  From what I see, we need a better plan in Iraq.  We need to work to ensure that the foundations of democracy are installed in Iraq at local levels as well as the national level.  We need people to have a vested interest in the democracy, not simply vote for mostly ethnic lists in a parliament.  We need to be able to find the terrorist leaders and arrest them rather than having military conflicts with the newest insurgency trainees.

But that's just my opinion.  I'm not an expert in Iraq.  I don't know whether that is what Bush is trying to do or not.  Do you know?  If not, why aren't you or the media trying to find out?