George Will, a supporter of the Iraq invasion, writes approvingly about this nugget from Bob Woodward’s State of Denial:

Astonishing. The commander-in-chief is announcing a new war strategy for Iraq and his defense secretary stonewalls it. If Secretary Rumsfeld didn’t agree with the “clear, hold and build” strategy, fine. He should have stepped aside and handed over the keys to the Pentagon to someone who supported the new strategy. Instead, the new strategy was implemented without sufficient forces, a critical problem going back to 2003 (see here, here, here, here, here, and here) and noted again today in this piece by a 101st soldier. This Washington Post piece, “Rice’s Rebuilding Plan Hits Snag,” is a good example of how the stonewalling worked: