Ignored by the administration?
No kidding.
We can't admit it's not going as planned.
(Pssst....we can't even admit it's poor planning in the first place).
We can't even admit a big "woops".
Bush and Rumsfeld won't back out after all the hooplah, they'll have to wait until after the election, you know; then it will be something else.....like "stabilizing" them for 50 odd years.
It will become the hellhole of the world..... American soldiers dying by all the weapons sent there for the insurgency. A political trap brought to you by your fearless leader (with no hubris at all)