I didn't see the moments referenced here, but Michael Ware has long been an interesting figure. His reporting tends to convey the fuckupedness of the situation a bit more clearly than that of many others, but he also strongly sees that fuckupedness as a reason the US needs to stay in Iraq.
So, 15 months from January '09 is too soon a time to withdraw. That brings us to April of 2010, two years from now and seven years after the war started.
And on and on.