Ironic, isn't it. At the moment, there's about.. five republicans who hasn't actually voiced some kind of criticism against how the war has been handled, or against Rumsfeld's "you go to war with the army you have (even if it means more casualties and less efficiency than optimal - or as what was promised)". So now it becomes even more obvious than earlier that it is a clash between belief and fact, and not between determination and weakness as it seems some believe it has been so far. Actually, even the representatives most bent on war in the first place begin to realize that unless something is done with "the Plan", the entire farce will fail miserably with both the american public and the Iraqis, no matter how determined the president seems to believe his troops are. The ironic part is that there will be no draft as long as Rumsfeld retains his position, as he has promised that the draft is not needed to complete the mission. In other words, while Rumsfeld and enough people believe that things go smoothly, all is well - at least until they don't. But before utterly complete disaster and civil war happens, "people" have to be convinced that things go badly enough to warrant terribly unpopular means to turn project "United Iraq" around.

I mean, it's genious, really. Noone wants to have the draft, or as earlier - to spend a huge pile of money on the war, so when the president states that all is well, no wonder so many agree with him. Frankly, I hope for the sake of the troops already in Iraq that things go as well as Rumsfeld believes.