The mixed messages in Bush's new plan.  The mixed messages in
Bush's new plan.  Military analysis. Nov. 30 2005 6:17 PM  The
Good News—Bush Finally Has a Plan  The bad news—it's an ill-
defined muddle.  The most remarkable thing about the document
President George W. Bush released today, titled National
Strategy for Victory in Iraq, is that it was released today (and
written not much earlier—it's authored by the National Security
Council and dated November 2005).     Now, what about this
path—the strategy for victory—and the speech that President Bush
gave at the U.S. Naval Academy this morning to promote it?  The
document and the speech are better than previous efforts.
They're more detailed. They identify not just some ultimate
ideal (defeat the terrorists or spread freedom throughout the
world), but specific, achievable stages of success along the
way. The speech even acknowledges that mistakes have been
made—only tactical errors, involving the poorly wrought initial
approaches to training Iraqi security fo