Losing Powell

According to Salon.com, Newsweek will report on Monday that Colin Powell has been telling friends that the Iraqi insurgents are winning the war:

The insurgents have succeeded in infiltrating Iraqi forces "from top to bottom," a senior Iraqi official tells Newsweek in tomorrow’s issue of the magazine, "from decision making to the lower levels."

This is a particularly troubling development for the U.S. military, as it prepares to launch an all-out assault on the insurgent strongholds of Fallujah and Ramadi, since U.S. Marines were counting on the newly trained Iraqi forces to assist in the assault.

I'm sure that's the story the Bush team wants in undecided heads as they go to the polls on Tuesday.