Official Response

So the presentation of the Iraq Study Group Report happened, and given the tone of this WAPO news analysis, the situation is as backward as the accompanying image.

If Bush’s M.O. is all about resistance and denial, and the Iraq Study Group “manifesto” is effectively an in-your-face repudiation of the Administration’s Iraq campaign, is it any wonder Bush holds the book so it can’t be opened, with the cover facing away?

(image: Pablo Martinez Monsivais/AP.  December 7, 2006.  washingtonpost.com)