Connecticut Republican Chris Shays was the guest at the Christian Science Monitor's monthly breakfast meeting yesterday. Shays told the crowd there has been "no progress" made in Iraq since January and he slammed President Bush by saying "the president has no credibility on whatever he says" about Iraq.

Here's what Shays said about the Bush administration's plan for troop levels in Iraq:

"The reason they don't share this plan with you is, the plan has been wrong once, it has been wrong twice, it's been wrong three times, it's been wrong four times. So they have decided they would rather have you think they don't have a plan than a plan that doesn't work...

It [the plan] is classified. But I can just tell you that what they expect to happen at the end of this year is absurd ... what I am looking for from this administration, and I have told them I will not give up, I want a number of what you need in a worst-case scenario. And when you give me that number, I can give all of you a timeline that tells the Iraqis when they have to step up.... It may be we have to add people before we subtract people."

Shays also told the group that, "I don't know if I am going to win this election. I don't know. I am not going to argue with people who say it is a tossup, whatever." Not sounding very confident.....