It is falling darn short of what the administration thought it was going to be, where we thought we were going to be, three years on.

You've got to get a government formed and you've got to get American troops out of there fairly soon.

I think that's exactly right. So that's why I don't think this is for PR purposes. What I do think it raises a question of -- as Iraq gets deeper into what looks like a civil war, and we then go in with a lot of air power against one side…

The president's honesty numbers are down. That is his trump card, is, people think he's honest.

If I were in the White House, I would be more concerned about the independent, who have dropped some 20 points over the last 18 months.

This backing-and-forthing is -- is causing a credibility gap.

It is extremely disturbing, from the White House point of view, that he -- there has been such an erosion in the number of people who think of -- think of George W. Bush as honest.

Every politician who says that is lying.

One is struck, Anderson, by the fact that, over the last few months, as this pressure has come from the outside to shake up his staff, change his policies, which are just as important as changing personnel, how much resistance there has…

Well, Iraq is certainly the largest part of it, because there has been unrelieved bad news from Iraq, except for an occasional election.

They don't. And, of course, the best thing the Republicans have going for them is the Democrats.