Part A of Rumsfeld's plan was genius. Minimal loss of life taking over a massive country with expediency.

Part B started to become a quagmire. Rumsfeld did not plan it well it seems. Hopefully, after an extended slowdown and a number of failures, Plan B can get under way and finish the genius of the war in Iraq.

I believe, so long as this current pattern is playing out, that history will judge the war in Iraq very favorably. This will ESPECIALLY be the case if we can do a phase out within the next 2 years and cradle the new Iraq to sovereignty.