According to Fox
"The measures in Fallujah and Najaf were announced a day after President Bush held a teleconference with senior national security and military advisers to discuss the situation in Fallujah and the rest of Iraq.
U.S. occupation leaders are under pressure not to launch major military action. Some U.S.-picked Iraqi leaders were angered by the Fallujah siege. The top U.N. envoy for Iraq, Lakhdar Brahimi -- who has been asked by Washington to help pick a new government -- warned the United States against assaults on Najaf or Fallujah
"When you surround a city, you bomb the city, when people cannot go to hospital, what name do you have for that? ... If you have enemies there, this is exactly what they want you to do, to alienate more people so that more people support them rather than you," Brahimi said of Fallujah on ABC's "This Week."
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,118054,00.html
so I am assuming President Bush was in the loop. However, I think you might be right. This decision could well have been made W/O President Bush's okay. In which case, whatever problems attend this decision are not the fault of President Bush.
So, what was it? Bush's call or not?
And, if he's in charge, isn't he responsible for decisions he delegates to others?
He simply can't say, wasn't me, and wash his hands off it.
One, is Falluja today a success?
Two, whose call was it to stop the Marines exerting dominance and gaining physical control?
Are you happy with a neoTalib city spitting distance from a Marine Base?