It was summer 2006. Three years into it, the Iraq war was spinning perilously close to out of control.
Bob Woodward’s new book, The War Within, describes the dire news being sent to President Bush:

“During the summer of 2006, from her office adjacent to the White House, deputy national security adviser Meghan O’Sullivan sent President Bush a daily top secret report cataloging the escalating bloodshed and chaos in Iraq. ‘Violence has acquired a momentum of its own and is now self-sustaining,’ she wrote July 20, quoting from an intelligence assessment.”

“Her dire evaluation contradicted the upbeat assurances that President Bush was hearing from Gen. George W. Casey Jr., the U.S. commander in Iraq. Casey and Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld were pushing to draw down American forces and speed the transfer of responsibility to the Iraqis. Despite months of skyrocketing violence, Casey insisted that within a year, Iraq would be mostly stable, with the bulk of American combat troops headed home.”

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