| NYT: As weeks wore on, Bush Administration began to doubt Israel could win an outright military victory in Lebanon

Isn't this pretty much what the IDF thought about BushCo after the first 1 1/2 years in Iraq?

The Raw Story NYT: As weeks wore on, Bush Administration began to doubt Israel could win an outright military victory in Lebanon:

As the weeks 'wore on,' the Bush Administration began to doubt that Israel could win an outright military victory in Lebanon, according to an early version of an article published in Monday's New York Times.

An advance version of the Times article obtained by RAW STORY included references to such doubts as expressed by an unidentified senior Bush Administration official, but for unknown reasons it was left out of the published article.

'When the war in Lebanon began in mid-July, American diplomacy was predicated on giving the vaunted Israeli armed forces the time it needed to destroy Hezbollah militarily,' Warren Hoge had once written.