It's already working. My friends' son....a Marine right in the thick of things there in the Baghdad area.....has said they are having a hard time getting the enemy to engage.

But we don't need to be giving a date certain. It only harms us. The President has every desire to get us out of there as soon as possible. And that's good enough for me.

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"This is a time for a national imperative not to fail in Iraq." Condoleeza Rice, January 11, 2007