It is interesting to note that this article appeared in the ultra-conservative Washington Times newspaper.
Is Bush going to announce a change of course in Iraq, and try to make it look like it was his idea all along?
From UPI via yesterday's Washington Times:
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President Bush plans what is being billed as a major speech on Iraq for Wednesday amid signs that the administration is changing course.
Aides told the Los Angeles Times that the president is expected to say at the Naval Academy in Annapolis that Iraqi troops are close to being able to operate on their own.
Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said recently that the United States should be able to start reducing the number of troops in Iraq soon.
The administration is under pressure with increasing public disapproval at the president's handling of Iraq. Members of his own party are worried about next year's Congressional elections and the 2008 presidential race.
At a meeting in Egypt, members of Iraq's Shiite, Sunni and Kurdish factions were able to agree on a call for a U.S. withdrawal.
At home, Rep. John Murtha's call for redeployment and his bitter description of the war invigorated administration opponents. Attempts by Vice President Dick Cheney, presidential spokesman Scott McClellan and others to counter the Pennsylvania Democrat, a decorated veteran of Korean and Vietnam, backfired, the newspaper said.
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[See it on the Washington Times site.]
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