Actually, that's what you've been hearing before in other stories posted on this site through the last year. There's frustration with leaving Mucky al-Sadr still standing when they had him cornered in Najaf and frustration with leaving Fallujah when they had the bad guys surrounded a few months ago after heavy fighting. They see political decisions made in Washington preventing them from achieving a decisive win and you saw that again in the story in the Washington Post today (Lanny posting a mainstream media story!!).
You see it in the web blogs of soldiers as well. It seems a common lament for soldiers trained to fight a formation type war and instead finding themselves locked in the nebulous art of peacekeeping/peacemaking.
A similar story from over a year ago:
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/wn_report/...65p-91932c.html
Maybe Rumsfeld saw the story in the Washington Post today - he said today troop levels for USA soldiers could decline in Iraq after the January elections as more Iraqi security forces are applied.
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,134968,00.html
Cowperson