At an Iraq summit at Camp David on June 12, 2006, “The war cabinet gathered in Laurel Lodge and sat on one side of a conference table facing screens showing [Central Command leader General John] Abizaid, [U.S. Commander in Iraq General George] Casey, and [Ambassador Zalmay] Khalilzad in Iraq. Casey reported that the situation had ‘fundamentally changed’ and was no longer just an insurgency against Americans but had become a broader internal struggle for political and economic power. The longer the Americans were there, the longer Iraqis would depend on them to solve their problems, and so he recommended keeping the current strategy to transition responsibility to Iraqi forces.”
– Peter Baker, Days of Fire, Page 465