Providing cover for the Prez on the ISG

in all seriousness, i don't think it matters to him whether he has the cover or not, but i suppose it's useful in making it easier for him to do what he is going to do anyway, isg, mid-term elections, polls, congress, and the american people be damned...

Many Republican and Democratic lawmakers have embraced the panel's report, but the almost uniformly negative reaction from some of Bush's strongest conservative supporters means the president may have some political flexibility to depart from the group's major recommendations, according to some GOP operatives.

and, i don't suppose condemnation of the isg coming from iraq hurts either...

The Iraqi president [Jalal Talabani] said Sunday the bipartisan U.S. report calling for a new approach to the war offered dangerous recommendations that would undermine his country's sovereignty and were "an insult to the people of Iraq."

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