The last time Bush changed course was when he quit drinking

and there's some question that he's stuck with it since...

One of the myths that the Bush camp has tried to perpetuate over the years is that the president follows the model, learned as a student at Harvard Business School, of a chief executive who delegates, listens to advice and only then decides. Bush is the "decider," as he calls himself, but there is little evidence that he listens to advice that he doesn't want to hear. It may be that the last really serious call for a midcourse correction heeded by George W. Bush was the hangover he experienced at Colorado's Broadmoor Hotel one morning in the summer of 1986, when he decided to quit drinking—a decision that put him on the path to the presidency. That was indeed a momentous example of evaluating options and choosing to change, but it happened two decades ago.

any evidence that shows he might be willing to change course now...? damn little...

[E]ven Bush's most loyal lieutenants can only point to relatively minor examples such as the creation of the Department of Homeland Security (which Bush initially opposed) and the doomed Supreme Court nomination of Harriet Miers as instances of a president's being, as the Bush friend said, "willing to change his mind." (Other Bush confidants point to his decision to fire longtime chief of staff Andy Card and Defense Secretary Don Rumsfeld as evidence of his willingness to change, but both were drawn-out decisions that many friends believed came too late.)

i still maintain that pulling out of iraq would mean pulling the rug out from under the bush administration... without the cover of the aumf, the doors of every cupboard and closet filled with noxious bushco misdeeds and unconstitutional overrides would come popping open, and bush would have no choice but to resign... imho, he's going to stay in iraq and keep his war on no matter what...

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