My big concern is whatever Bush does will turn out the way every other Democratic idea he first resisted then claimed he invented (DHS, 9/11 Commission, etc.).
Who Cares What You Think?
By Dan Froomkin
Special to washingtonpost.com
Wednesday, December 13, 2006; 12:14 PM
Despite polls consistently showing that a majority of Americans want American troops pulled out of Iraq in short order, President Bush is refusing to even consider that option.
In fact, signs are that he is leaning in the opposite direction, choosing to send yet more troops into harm's way.
And despite the obvious, palpable urgency, Bush this week decided he needs more time to think things through -- rescheduling until some unspecified point in the new year an announcement the White House had previously said would come before Christmas.
Doubling Down
John King reported on CNN yesterday: "I talked to a number of senior administration officials today and also some of the outsiders who have been consulted by the administration a part of this review, including one retired general. . . .
"These officials all believe the president is planning to do something big. He is planning to do a substantial policy shift. And one of the sources I spoke to said he believes the president is very seriously considering, in the short-term, agreeing with Senator John McCain and increasing U.S. troop levels in the short-term and also resisting the recommendations of the Iraq Study Group. . . .
"[T]he president, we are told, has asked for more advice about how could he do it? If he wanted to send in 20,000, 15,000 more troops for a few months to try to improve the situation, primarily in Baghdad, how could that happen?
"So they need more time to put all that on the table. They need more time for the new defense secretary to study it."
It sounds a bit like the last gasp of Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and his fellow neocons.
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