Michael O'Hanlon, a respected military analyst with the center-left Brookings Institute, was among them.
At the Brookings Institution, Michael O'Hanlon, like Mr Panetta a Democrat, is also worried.
Dr. MICHAEL O'HANLON (Senior Fellow, Brookings Institution): The Iranians still probably can build a nuclear bomb if they want.
"We deliberately developed a certain dependency on contractors, " says Michael O'Hanlon, a foreign policy analyst at Washington's Brookings Institute.
But Michael O'Hanlon, a security analyst at the Brookings Institution, warns against complacency.
The attack was not particularly surprising, said senior Brookings Institution fellow Michael O'Hanlon.
Michael O'Hanlon of the Brookings Institution argues that Mr Bush is proving much more of a multilateralist than many people expected.
Michael O'Hanlon is a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution who has been tracking the state of the Iraq War since it began.
"Whether it was an attack against a supply convoy or a terrorist leader, it's not particularly surprising, " senior Brookings fellow Michael O'Hanlon said.
But Michael O'Hanlon, a senior fellow with the Brookings Institution, said the lack of political progress is more serious than the report suggests.
But Michael O'Hanlon of the Brookings Institution says that's mainly because some neocons in the Pentagon tried to fight the war on the cheap.
Mr. MICHAEL O'HANLON (Senior Fellow, Brookings Institution): As the whole debate becomes about troop withdrawal, it's harder to have the debate about how we improve our policy.
Michael O'Hanlon is a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution.
Mr. MICHAEL O'HANLON (Senior Fellow, Brookings Institute): So it's a word that's not only more amorphous, but frankly somewhat beyond rebuke or beyond repudiation on the part of critics.
Chief Executive Michael O'Hanlon took this model oversees, expanding to international health care concerns from Uruguay to the United Kingdom that needed cash to acquire things like a CAT scan.
Michael O'Hanlon, a Brookings Institution senior fellow who spearheads the organization's Iraq Index, says a full removal of Americans troops by the end of next year would be a tall order.
Mr. MICHAEL O'HANLON (Senior Fellow, Brookings Institution): Certainly some of them were guilty of an overly arrogant and optimistic view of how the United States would be welcomed wherever it went around the world.
Michael O'Hanlon, senior fellow in foreign policy at the Brookings Institution, said the military is much better at thwarting roadside bombs, has developed a better informant network and has been dismantling the al Qaeda in Iraq movement.
Mr. MICHAEL O'HANLON (Brookings Institution): Well, you give a very good statistic, that women are about 10 percent of the force, so maybe two to three percent of the number of fatalities, with 71 having given their lives in this mission, and so that gives you some rough sense right there of the relative danger of the jobs they are doing.
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