It will be a light day of blogging for me both today and tomorrow; I'm on the road. In the meantime, the administration's report on Iraq and its benchmarks of progress is out; details here. Obviously President Bush would have liked it to have been better. But why can't we wait until September to make final judgments? What's the big rush? Iraq and the war on terror are issues too important to judge with political polls on the brain. I'm talking to you, Senators Lugar, Domenici, Hagel...
And don't forget the positive information on Iraq I pointed to here yesterday.
At the same time, this news--that analysts are suggesting that Al Qaeda is now at its strongest point since 9/11--is something the Bush administration must explain to the American people, and seek to rectify.
