The Swiss watchmakers

When I hear something like this from within the Bush/Cheney administration, I worry.

Several senior officials involved in formulating the political and economic aspects of the administration's strategy, along with a number of informed outsiders, agreed to discuss its assumptions and risks on the condition that they not be identified by name. Other sources refused to be even anonymously quoted, describing the administration as standing on the brink of an intricate combination of maneuvers whose outcome is far from assured.

I don't recall intricate maneuvers being used to describe the actions of these guys in Iraq.