National Strategy for Victory in Iraq

The White House has released a 35-page document it called the National Strategy for Victory in Iraq. which it said articulates "the broad strategy the president set forth in 2003 and provides an update on our progress as well as the challenges remaining."

According to the New York Times, the release of the National Strategy for Victory in Iraq, Defense Secretary Rumsfeld's emphasis yesterday on improvements in Iraqi forces, and President Bush's speech this morning, are designed to answer "Democratic leaders in Congress who have argued that Mr. Bush has no plausible plan for bringing home the nearly 160,000 troops engaged in a war against the insurgency."

Why a document like the National Strategy for Victory in Iraq, assembling our strategy into a single unclassified document, has never been done before now escapes me. It was obviously something that should have been done long before now.

The National Strategy for Victory in Iraq is available here.