Tony Snow: " Here is -- like -- it is a complex situation of war. Duh."

http://www.swamppolitics.com/news/politics/blog/2007/06/white_house_plays_down_lugars.html#more

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Q A lot of Republicans have said they'll wait till September. But you've got Dick Lugar last night saying, "The United States has violated some basic national security precepts during our military engagement in Iraq. We have overestimated what the military can achieve."

MR. SNOW: Well, again, we -- obviously we disagree with him on that. On the other hand, we also agree with him when he was taking some of the critics to task for some of the things that they have said. Here is -- like -- it is a complex situation of war. Duh.

On the other hand, we also know that there are going to be reports to Congress in the middle of July and the middle of September about how things are going --