Whistling Past the Graveyard
The Baker-Hamilton report on the Iraq war is in. It crucifies the administration’s five-year policy and still, the president isn’t having any. Bush might not even be aware of the depth of his Middle East disaster as yet. He was a bit pale and shaken before the cameras while facing the press with Tony Blair, but he’ll get over it when he realizes the alternative is Dick Cheney’s wrath.
The Baker-Hamilton report on the Iraq war is in. It crucifies the administration’s five-year policy and still, the president isn’t having any. Bush might not even be aware of the depth of his Middle East disaster as yet. He was a bit pale and shaken before the cameras while facing the press with Tony Blair, but he’ll get over it when he realizes the alternative is Dick Cheney’s wrath.
There were the usual sops tossed in the direction of election results, bi-partisan cooperation and ways forward, but even Tony Blair standing resolutely by his side didn’t turn the trick.
This president is holding his impossib…