[CamB]

What he needs to do better is sell that vision and get others to understand and hopefully follow it.

Part of the problem is that (like the tax cuts, trickle down, voodoo economics), few people (outside the US) believe it will work they way Bush says.

The fact that the Admin grossly underestimated the Iraqi people's response to being liberated (exacerbated by the terrorists coming out of the woodwork in the surrounding region) makes it quite hard to trust future decisions on the basis of "vision".

I'll put it another way - I suspect the "vision" didn't involve several years of insurgency. It should have, but it didn't.