The Myth of the Purple Finger:

An Iraqi government that can't secure Iraq. An American army doing the bidding of a Shia-dominated government. Hell of a plan.

"I believed -- and I said from the podium -- that as Iraqis became more politically empowered, the insurgency would become politically weakened," said Dan Senor, a top Bremer adviser. "That hasn't happened. The political process has been resilient -- and so has the insurgency."