David Gergen actually said...

I think he has to deliver some quiet messages, get your act together politically, put a lot of pressure on.

I think it does.

We want to put a lot of -- invest a lot of faith in this new government. We want to work with them. We will stay as long as they want.

There may be some signaling going on now about how much longer U.S. troops will really stay in large numbers in Iraq.