December 2nd, 2006 by jpeters
“It’s lonely at the top” for Bush, writes first lady of the press Helen Thomas in her latest column, published in The Seattle Post-Intelligencer. “His hawkish neo-con advisers are deserting him. He had to fire Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld. The Democrats have won control of Congress. U.S. allies are angry at his Iraq policies. And even Henry Kissinger — one of Bush’s foreign policy advisers and a key architect of the Vietnam debacle — has decided Iraq is a can’t-win situation. . . .
“[But] don’t expect any dramatic recommendations from the Iraq Study Group,” she writes. “The nine men and one woman on the panel are cautious Washington insiders who got picked for the job because of their don’t-rock-the-boat reputations. . . . The real solution is a cakewalk out of Iraq tomorrow. All it takes is courage.”