Iraq Study Group Won't Rock the Boat

Doesn't Bush always get his way? Isn't that precisely why we find ourselves in this hellish nightmare?

Helen Thomas Iraq Study Group Won't Rock the Boat:

Washington - With Iraq falling apart, it's getting lonely at the top for President Bush.

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. He earlier had told Bush, 'The only exit strategy is victory.'

Bush's father, former President George H. W. Bush, has come to his defense. It's Bush 41 rushing to rescue Bush 43.

It's widely assumed that when Bush named his father's close friend and confidante - James Baker - as co-chairman of a bipartisan 10-member Iraq Study Group, he was looking for a diplomatic retreat from the Iraqi dilemma. After all, Baker was secretary of state in the Bush 41 administration and knows his way around the Middle East. Both he and the senior Bush have hobnobbed together in the region representing the Carlyle Group, the privately owned conglomerate that sells weapons, among other items.