[Slick]

Everybody who has doubted that this was the case, that Bush was about to go wobbly, has not been paying attention the past two years. Bush makes a decision to accomplish something and then relentlessly pursues it to its resolution.

In this case, he settled on regime change in Iraq. Once that decision was made, I was never in doubt that that is exactly what he would do. When he went to the United Nations and got a resolution which, politically, he had to know would require a powerful argument to invade, I assumed that he had a powerful argument in hand.

In other words, I think you can take this administration at its word. The only exception I can see is the current mess of the Education bill. Even the steel tariffs were pretty much reversed.

[Petronski]

Even the steel tariffs were pretty much reversed.

I do not know what you mean. Please explain. :)

[Dog Gone]

You would have to know George personally to know how little he cares about steel tariffs.

[patriciaruth]

The only exception I can see is the current mess of the Education bill.

You can thank Jeffords for that. It was because we lost control of the Senate.

And for Bush, getting the testing mandated and started and the disaggregation of results mandated was the crux of the matter. Once the truth is known and published and widely available, people can act on it.

It's a FReeper idea.