God looks after children, drunkards, and the United States of America - Otto von Bismarck

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The White House is rethinking its diplomatic options in Iraq, but won't reconsider its military strategy before an assessment from war commanders is presented in September, U.S. officials said Tuesday.

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I'm not sure exactly how this fits in with the McCain/Bush "surge" plan, but it appears that Bush is looking at this thing as pretty much permanent. This makes it even more clear that it's going to be up to the U.S.

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The Washington pundits and the press are all atwitter wondering how successful George W.

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President Bush always had one asset he could fall back on: the self-confidence of a born salesman. Like Harold Hill in "The Music Man," he knew how to roll out a new product, however deceptive or useless, with conviction and stagecraft.

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Senator Ted Kennedy compares Bush's strategy of adding more troops to "stay the course" in Iraq to Lyndon Johnson's efforts to "stay the course" in Vietnam by ordering a 'troop surge' of 100,000 additional soldiers.

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The Horse's Mouth discusses the recent poll conducted by Military Times which suggests that American "troops" are not very supportive of the way that the President is handling the Iraq situation.

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No position has been more central to Bush's leadership than his decision to invade Iraq in 2003 and his unyielding defense of his conduct of the war ever since.

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The US seems not to understand that its current global war on terrorism is an asymmetrical war, and that the last military superpower is losing its engagements. The resistance in occupied and bombarded lands can still claim victory when the US fails to impose its will.

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The first rule of using negatives is that negating a frame activates the frame. If you tell someone not to think of an elephant, he'll think of an elephant.

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Failure is not an option for President Bush, even if Republicans do badly in Congressional elections that are being seen as a referendum on Iraq. The question is: what should he do next?

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If this is what winning in Iraq looks like, you really, really don't want to see what losing looks like.

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This video is incredibly damning, and brilliant. It shows clearly how Bush has jettisoned his own message on Iraq only 2 weeks before the election, and now wants us to believe that the old message of "stay the course" never existed.

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Apparently, the White House research team isn't very good at "the Google." ThinkProgress has documented 30 times that Bush has used the phrase to describe his policy in Iraq:

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Isn't it lovely when reality and the Onion melt into one? All pretense of seriousness is dropped and the true absurdity behind some of what is billed as 'news' lurches into the light.

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President Bush and his aides are annoyed that people keep misinterpreting his Iraq policy as "stay the course." A complete distortion, they say. "That is not a stay-the-course policy," White House press secretary Tony Snow declared yesterday.

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During an interview today on ABC's This Week, President Bush tried to distance himself from what has been his core strategy in Iraq for the last three years.

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During an interview today on ABC's This Week, President Bush tried to distance himself from what has been his core strategy in Iraq for the last three years.

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BRITAIN'S top soldier spoke out against the government's handling of the campaign in Iraq because he feared Britain was being "held hostage" by US policy in the region, friends claimed last night.

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A new WPO poll of the Iraqi public finds that seven in ten Iraqis want US-led forces to commit to withdraw within a year.

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Sen. John McCain said the American people are showing a "schizophrenic" reaction to the prospect of a withdrawal of American forces from Iraq.

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Some rightwing hacks would like you to belive that the military stands monolithic behind the neoconservative view of American military and warfighting policy. Few things could be further from the truth.

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Robert Parry at Consortiumnews.com discusses the possibility that Al-Qaeda is dictating American foreign policy from a cave in Afghanistan.

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...the White House rejects the phrase and regularly emphasizes that it is adapting tactics to changing circumstances, such as moving more U.S.

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Who is in Charge of US Foreign Policy?

Why, Osama bin Laden is, at least according to White House Press Secretary Tony Snow. At today's press briefing, in answer to a question vaguely related to Joe Lieberman's Connecticut Primary loss, Mr. Snow rambled,

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