"The headline out of General Petraeus's testimony was a prediction that the United States should be able to reduce its forces from 160,000 to 130,000 by next summer. That sounds like a big number, but it would bring American troops only to the level of troops that were in Iraq when Mr. Bush announced his “surge” last January. And it's the rough equivalent of dropping an object and taking credit for gravity. "

-- NY Times editorial board, September 11, 2007, writing about where we are with Iraq..and how much the Bush administration is stonewalling and keeping to their own agenda.