by David Sanger, in the New York Times today:

If Mr. Bush's accomplishments in Iraq are judged on the events of the past 14 months, he has clearly succeeded in only one of his tasks: dismantling a tyrannical government. The so-far fruitless search for unconventional weapons — the primary justification for invading Iraq — undermined his credibility, making what Mr. Bush described as a war of necessity appear to have been one of choice. His argument that a change of rule in Iraq would quell terrorism is similarly questioned, undercut by a rewritten State Department assessment that now concedes an increase in terrorist incidents. The attacks on American troops in Iraq were not part of the count.