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Today, on January 15, 2009, in a Washington Post article, Bob Woodward brings up the war in Iraq in one of ten pieces of advice that he draws from the Bush presidency. He writes that " A president must do the homework to master the fundamental ideas and concepts behind his policies." The president, he wrote, should not micromanage, and he should "understand that the ramifications of his positions cannot be outsourced to anyone."
Woodward writes that the commander of U.S. forces in Iraq in 2004-07, General Casey, "believed that Bush, who kept asking for enemy body counts, saw the war as a conventional battle, rather than the counterinsurgency campaign to win over the Iraqi population that it was." Woodward quotes General Petraeus as later saying that, "We cannot kill our way to victory in Iraq."
address of this article: http://www.fsmitha.com/com/woodward.html