When John Sununu came out against him, that was really bad news for the attorney general.

General Petraeus is on a different time scale. He probably does need more time.

The president can now have a good-cop/bad-cop routine with the Maliki government.

I think that the Democrats, the growling that they're doing against the war, does -- it puts pressure on the White House.

There's such a thing now as Washington time, the political timetables in Washington, and Baghdad time.

It's unlikely they will get through it. But, for the first time, there may be a window.

It's unlikely that they can actually get a bill passed, -- Anderson. Even if they get it passed, the president is going to veto it. And they don't have the override votes.

But I will tell you something. I think they are -- in a very odd way, despite all their disarray -- and that sort of goes with being Democrats, I suppose -- they're actually giving a gift to the president.

I think that John Edwards essentially held people's coats and let them fight it out, and he does emerge unscathed and -- and a little bit ahead.

But, when you go after a fly with a sledgehammer, you can get the fly, but you often cause a lot of ruckus.

the alliance, you know, it would be cracking. And -- and his closest friend, his -- his strongest ally throughout this war would be moving in a different direction.

That's obviously a big, big development, a big story, both militarily and -- and politically.