Couldn't those waffling appeasers over at DNI even bother to translate "cause celebre" into English?

So here's the nugget from the declassified NIE that's just been leaked, wrangled, digested and spun with whirlwind speed over the last few days in Washington (along with some other boring parts about how lots more different kinds of people are even more excited about trying to kill us than ever before):

"We assess that the Iraq jihad is shaping a new generation of terrorist leaders and operatives; perceived jihadist success there would inspire more fighters to continue the struggle elsewhere.

The Iraq conflict has become the "cause celebre" for jihadists, breeding a deep resentment of US involvement in the Muslim world and cultivating supporters for the global jihadist movement. Should jihadists leaving Iraq perceive themselves, and be perceived, to have failed, we judge fewer fighters will be inspired to carry on the fight."

So what's the gist of this?
Could it possibly be what moderate voices in both parties (although admittedly more of them on the Dem side) have been saying over the last year or so, that it was a mistake to go into Iraq because, false pretenses aside, it was bad strategy for the so-called war on terror and has only made things worse, but since we're in it deep now, we need to figure out a way to get out smart and make sure the Iraqis have their Shiites together with their Kurds and Sunnis so we don't leave behind what would amount to the world's largest terrorist training camp.
It's a good thing Rove, Cheney & co. decided to just find a way to spin this, or else they'd have to accuse their own intel people of flip-flopping, waffling, or whatever new term they've coined for a foolish inconsistency.