And who besides Bushie says it's going well? Best case scenario - "continuing instability".
Check the posts which say money is being diverted from reconstruction to security.
Or this: That pessimistic tone was echoed in a new intelligence report on Iraq, the first since October 2002, officials told the New York Times.
"The document, commissioned in July, lists three possible outcomes for the country over the next year - the worst being civil war and the best being continuing instability."