Megan O’Sullivan, the President’s former “top Iraq adviser while the war sank into an abyss over the past few years,” is having a little trouble sleeping these days. The Washington Post reports:

“I was dreaming about Iraq last night,” she said. “And I woke up and thought, ‘When do you think this will stop?‘ ”

O’Sullivan lived [the Iraq War] every waking hour — and many of the sleeping ones. The dreams came every night, often prosaic, sometimes straight out of a war movie, filled with violence and menace. It was, she said, “all consuming.

Indeed, the soldiers who suffered the results of her ill-conceived advice to Bush are surely asking the same thing. At least she can take some solace in how well the surge worked out.

The Post reports further:

One former senior official said nearly everyone who has left the administration is angry in some way or another — at the president for making bad decisions, at his staff for misguiding him, at events that have spiraled out of control. … Interviews with a dozen top aides who left in recent months reveal a profound sense of ambivalence about the ultimate outcome of their work beyond toppling Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein.

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