With Iraqi resistance winning, War hawks bitterly debate what to do

In March 2003 the Bush administration gave the U.S. military a mission impossible—to colonize Iraq. Almost three years later, under the sustained campaign of Iraqi resistance and the growing opposition at home, that mission has gone from quagmire to crisis.

The steady stream of setbacks is forcing the high command to demand changes of policy. But the commanders in charge of the war are unable to get a hearing from the Bush-Cheney-Rumsfeld cabal. And they have been forced to take their battles to the halls of Congress.