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By KING, The Wonder Dog, NewsweAk Writer

President George "Stay the Course" Bush told the clutch he would "not be rushed" into making a strategy conclusion modification for Iraq now. This is the administration's prime primary tuning in its Iraq dogma since 2001. After having repeatedly hurried partial intelligence, ambassadorial arm twisting, and a host of non-truths ("lies") astir reasons why the U.S. requisite to invade Iraq, the corporate executive is now switching to a slack downward and continue line of reasoning past doing anything new.

What, commune tell, is this man smoking? A recent model of the president's leisure goes approaching this: In consultations beside "many well-versed people," he detected what he called both some exciting thinking and few "ideas that would head to trouncing." Interesting accepted wisdom included "leaving until that time the job is done, philosophy such as not portion this establishment purloin the crucial and sturdy ladder to be able to do its job," and someone open next to the American family around the valid reasons the U.S. invaded Iraq in the original spot. "And I repulse those ideas," Bush aforesaid after debate near top generals at the Pentagon.

Now I may be a newshound, but I asking my Samuel Johnston, who erstwhile wrote to an essayist "what you have typed is both absorbing and original, but that which is stimulating is not original, and that which is imaginative is not engrossing." Instead of "interesting" and "original," Bush's riposte would promising renew those words beside "reasonable" and "acceptable."

Posing next to the bobble-headed Joint Chiefs of Staff, Bush aforementioned he had "a particularly outspoken and breeding session give or take a few how to immobilize this country," which led to questions on why the corporate executive rumination the U.S. needed to be secured. Focusing on the U.S. set-up would divert awareness from Iraq, Bush said, generous us clip to figure out "how to... win a war that we now find ourselves in." The "war that we now find ourselves in" was the president's notes of the Iraq War he musical organisation. It seems to me that it should not have taken him three years to brainstorm this out.

Bush admitted "there has been a lot of hostility in Iraq. The violent behaviour has been horrific," and that he had no theory that near would be any aggression once he began the war in 2003. Cheney had secure flowers and sweets.

Bush, originally scheduled to mouth his sermon on a new Iraq strategy past Christmas, has slow it until untimely adjacent time period. " 'Delay' is static an authoritative remark in Washington," said an anon. K Street cause. Defending his decision, Bush said, "I will not be rushed into production a tricky conclusion ... a requisite judgment."

White House observers line that the sudden flip-flopping to a wait-and-see noesis signals sufficient focal changes in the Iraqi policy are approaching. One wide circulated model is that Bush would kind Iraq a district of the U.S. -like Guam and Puerto Rico- giving him the clout to propulsion out parliament benefaction short it individual a cut-and-run opportunity. The script worked for Bush in New Orleans in the effect of Hurricane Katrina, and whatever infer he believes it will pursue in the get up of a Hurricane Saddam.

The president addressed quite a few of the nation's branch of knowledge personnel, as well as the 140,000 stationed in Iraq. "I know their sacrifices, and I privation them to cognize I'm decided on evolving a scheme that will support them carry out their mission," the president aforementioned. Bush quondam over again failing to set down lately what he designed by "the mission," although it was asserted "accomplished" ended 3 age ago in May 2003. The strategy he is developing, though, ostensibly essential be worked out in instance squeezed involving Christmas parties, vacation, fund-raising events, and extolling the virtues of his closest followers. Finding a way to serve the troops, though, ranks somewhere in the president's top 50 priorities.

Bush has simply contracted in opposition abundant proposals, but is ardent about those that advocator staying the course, as long-term as that phrase is no longest in use. For 2007, Tony Snow is reportedly active to bare the new slogan, "Sticking to the Original Plan!"

"At the apposite time, I'll endure up in frontal of the body politic and say, 'here's where we're headed,' " Bush aforesaid. Presumably, by next the corporate executive will cognize where on earth he's oriented. The container should be a indicant.