Really, It's Not 'Cut and Run'


No, it's "Delay for the Holiday: (and hope it goes away)"

WASHINGTON - President Bush, about to wrap up an intense effort to arrive at a new course for Iraq, now is likely to lay out his plan to the nation early next year instead of before Christmas, a senior White House official said Tuesday.

--aside: speaking of "Delay," here's a good laff.

The possible new timing is not a reflection of a last-minute shift by the White House, said the official, who spoke on condition of anonymity because the decision was not final. Instead, the official said the president knows the direction he is likely to take his Iraq strategy and has directed his team to address the many the practical ramifications, such as for military tactics and regional diplomacy.

That work is complicated and not finished, the official said. He dismissed any suggestions that this reflects trouble arriving at decisions, or making them work.

What. A. Pile. Of. Crap. The work is "complicated" only because there simply ISN'T a way for Team Bush to salvage any measure of success from this abject and total failure...not even in perception, as the Sunshine Boys discovered last week. And no wonder: a rotting stench is never going to remind anyone of roses.

Meanwhile, here's more of that smell, that gasoline smell. The whole hill. Smelled like...victory

Two car bombs targeting day laborers looking for work exploded within seconds of each other Tuesday on a main square in central Baghdad, killing at least 63 people and wounding scores, the government said.


"Dang..." [hits the reset button]