After viewing that speech

I think Bush rejecting Jim Baker, public opinion, election results, the wiser heads in his own party, Laura and Barney, reality and probably Condi proves one thing.

Ladies and Gentlemen the case is closed, the evidence is irrefutable.

DICK CHENEY GIVES FAN-
FUCKING-TASTIC HEAD!

And a hearty fuck you to daddy's friends and their attempt at intervention (of that wacky left-wing nut job Ed Meese)

Although the president was publicly polite, few of the key Baker-Hamilton recommendations appealed to the administration, which intensified its own deliberations over a new "way forward" in Iraq. How to look distinctive from the study group became a recurring theme.

As described by participants in the administration review, some staff members on the National Security Council became enamored of the idea of sending more troops to Iraq in part because it was not a key feature of Baker-Hamilton.

Such sophisticated policy decisions.