Next thing, those goofy Ds will start calling the plan a plan.

The period from the summer of 2007 through the summer of 2008 was described as a time when the emphasis would be on the restoration of the Iraqi government's authority. The period from the summer of 2008 though the summer of 2009 was cast as one in which the Iraqi government would be increasingly self-reliant.

U.S. General in Iraq Outlines Troop Cuts - New York Times

So if we're gonna be restoring the Iraqi government's authority next year what are we doing this year, you man ask. Well, we're doing advanced planning this year. Although it's not really planning, it's more like forecasting. And anyway we have an election to win this year.