Bush taking more time to craft Iraq plan

President Bush worked nearly three hours at his Texas ranch on Thursday to design a new U.S. policy in Iraq, then emerged to say that he and his advisers need more time to craft the plan he'll announce in the new year.

LSB: He must have been – wait for it! – ‘bushed!’

Three hours? That’s all the time he could give for the troops over there and their families waiting over here? We’re coming up on the fourth anniversary of Mr. Bush’s war, so how much more time will he need to craft a plan? Quite a while, I imagine, if he's working at three-hour intervals.

“W” might be out of touch, but Rove et al are bright enough to know that the perception by the public to a pitiful three hour meeting is shameful. Iraq is in chaos and he took just three hours to strategize a war he started. Pathetic.