Clearly he won't do anything until forced into it. Then he will blame others for the "loss", even though that situation has been lost for some time.

With him as CinC of the mightiest military the world has ever seen. And all the money for which he asked. Taking longer than WWII. Against a third-world country the size of California. There's no word for such incompetence.

And while he dithers, people die.

President Bush said Wednesday he would "not be rushed" into a decision on a strategy change for Iraq, saying that in a round of consultations he heard both some interesting ideas and some "ideas that would lead to defeat."

Arf