Democrats & Iraq: Trying To Decipher President Bush

(President Bush, right, meets with German Chancellor Angela Merkel, who is President of the European Council, center, and European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, Monday, April 30, 2007. AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)

It is a sure sign of serious a health problem – probably schizophrenia – or a reflection of the thinking of a petty elected municipal councilor of a small town.

These thoughts occurred to me while reading The Associated Press story “Bush will work with Democrats on Iraq”, especially the following two paragraphs:

President Bush said Monday he wants to work with Democrats on compromise legislation to pay for the Iraq war even though he’ll carry through on his threat to veto a spending bill that also sets a timetable for a U.S. troop withdrawal.

And…

On another matter, Bush said that Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice might meet with Iranian diplomats later this week on the sidelines of a meeting in Egypt on Iraq. ‘Should the foreign minister of Iran bump into Condi Rice, Condi won’t be rude. She’s not a rude person. I’m sure she’ll be polite,’ Bush said.

“He called Iran ‘a significant threat to world peace, today and in the future’ because of its nuclear weapons ambitions. He immediately amended his remarks, saying, `today is the wrong word — in the future. They don’t have a weapon today’.

It is for you to judge…