[Piranha]

Even after the bilious senator had lambasted President Bush for supposedly cooking up the entire Iraq War as a political stunt and alleged that he had told "lie after lie after lie after lie," the elder George Bush gave Kennedy a public service award!

I think this was Bush 41's way of expressing extreme displeasure at the course that his son has charted. Remember also that two of Bush 41's top advisors wrote an Op-Ed piece against the second Iraq war, and that on Thanksgiving President Bush invited his father to the ranch for the holiday and then, without even telling him (can't the ex-head of the CIA and former President keep a secret?) he flew off to Iraq (the war his father seemingly opposed) to eat with the troops.

[cyncooper]

and that on Thanksgiving President Bush invited his father to the ranch for the holiday and then, without even telling him (can't the ex-head of the CIA and former President keep a secret?) he flew off to Iraq (the war his father seemingly opposed) to eat with the troops.

What?!

Back to the drawing board. Your analysis is way off the mark.