1) US soldiers by the thousands were engaged in fierce and deadly fighting in Iraq,
Inaccurate impression given, possibly due to the slant that particular editor wanted to put on the situation. The fighting, which was of fairly short duration, was confined to about three locations (in a country the size of France) known to be loyal to Saddam and the Ba'athists. The reason for this loyalty is due, by and large, to the fact that under Saddam these people were favoured at the expense of the people in other regions. The US military have made some glaringly obvious errors in their attempts to implement a "Hearts and Minds" policy, not surprising - they have never been very good at it, they do not study the concept and have never been used in the secondary role of "Aid to the civil power".
2) A detailed study of hospital records by journalists finds that at a very bare minimum, the war in Iraq has thus far created over 3000 civilian deaths,
In which case the Iraqi people have come out ahead, albeit in a comparison of bad versus worse. If over a similar period Saddam had batted his average the number would have been in excess of 15,000.
3) The US has run out of places to look for WMD's in Iraq,
I don't for one minute accept that and would love to know the grounds for making that statement.
4) The US military is saying that it may take more than two years, and thousands more troops, before an Iraqi government can be installed,
Sounds pretty reasonable to me, did anybody think for one moment that this could be accomplished in a shorter time-frame? De-Nazification of Germany took over five years to carry through.
5) US intelligence is convinced that Al Quaeda will strike against American interests in the near future,
That I believe would have been the case irrespective of any action in Iraq.
6) More bloodshed between the Israelis and Plestinians.
Has more to do with Palestinian hard-line opposition to the possible effects of US engagement in the peace process with the possibility of progress based on concessions being made - has nothing to do with Iraq.