The Bush administration said Monday there are no plans for shifts in policy or for ultimatums to Baghdad to force progress.
Both Democratic and Republican lawmakers are calling on President Bush to change his war plan.
"We’re on the verge of chaos, and the current plan is not working," Sen. Lindsey Graham, a Republican from South Carolina ssaid in an Associated Press interview. U.S. and Iraqi officials should be held accountable for the lack of progress, said Graham.
Asked who in particular should be held accountable — Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, perhaps, or the generals leading the war — Graham said: "All of them. It’s their job to come up with a game plan" to end the violence.
Bush, in a CNBC interview, said, "Well, I’ve been talking about a change in tactics ever since I — ever since we went in, because the role of the commander in chief is to say to our generals, `You adjust to the enemy on the battlefield.’"
In other news: Bush has decided not to use the phrase "Stay the Course" in his speeches about Iraq policy anymore.
We took our eye off the ball (Afghanistan) and blew it.