Several generals offer a sober assessment that our involvement in Iraq could go on for years and could still fail. This runs counter to the generally sunny (but inane) dispatches of the Bush team. Remember the comments, "insurgency has the same capabilities as a year ago, but we are winning" or "the increased violence shows how desperate the insurgents are". (Paraphrased)
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