Refusing the Offer He Could Not Refuse

It's either high theater or Dear Leader crossing the highway with his eyes closed.

Or, possibly, both.

WASHINGTON, Dec. 7 — President Bush moved quickly to distance himself on Thursday from the central recommendations of the bipartisan Iraq Study Group, even as the panel’s co-chairmen opened an intensive lobbying effort on Capitol Hill to press Mr. Bush to adopt their report wholesale.

One day after the study group rattled Washington with its bleak assessment of conditions in Iraq, its Republican co-chairman, James A. Baker III, said the White House must not treat the report “like a fruit salad,” while the Democratic co-chairman, Lee H. Hamilton, called on Congress to abandon its “extremely timid” approach to overseeing the war.

But Mr. Bush, making his first extended comments on the study, seemed to push back against two of its most fundamental recommendations: pulling back American combat brigades from Iraq over the next 15 months, and engaging in direct talks with Iran and Syria...

Thus the reason for the DIA psy-op released the same day as the report from the Iraq Study Group. Bernhard has compared and contrasted the two as a study in the Company's schizophrenia at the moment. But it's clear which side Dear Leader prefers.

And there's the rub, increasing the violent potential of the situation.

Dear Leader ignores the consigliere of the Saudis, his Poppy, and the Company to salvage his own ego and hegemonic delusions.

Virtually all of Washington, Rethuglican and DINOcrat, went belly up and approved the Company's heir-designate to the D.o'D.

Is this what it appears to be? Dear Leader dissin' his daddy, and more importantly, the Company that $elected him and the Saudis that bailed him and his family out out countless times, increasing the likelihood of Iraq igniting the whole Middle East.

That would not be profitable for anyone, a few deluded zealots aside.

Dear Leader should remember Poppy and Babs' response when the lost their daughter to leukemia, particularly since he's already made his contribution to the bloodline.

One wonders if Cheney and Addington are more acquiescent to the Company's solvency?