State of Denial

"Insurgents and terrorists retain the resources and capabilities to sustain and even increase current level of violence through the next year. " This was the secret Pentagon assessment sent to the White House in May 2006. The forecast of a more violent 2007 in Iraq contradicted the repeated optimistic statements of President Bush, including one, two days earlier, when he said we were at a "turning point" that history would mark as the time "the forces of terror began their long retreat." State o