[mburbank]

Well, I don't think W would have come out today and said that any sort of withdrawl was 100% off the table if he didn't know it wasn't going to be in the report.

Or who knows, maybe he's no more serious about that then he was about keeping Rummy till the end of his term.

I think both sides used the 'lets wait for the report' cynically as a way to didge the whole question of 'what the hell do we do'.

If the report offers no new ideas or strategies, I think we'll see someinteresting political changes as pro and anti withdrawlers on both sides of the aisle start brokering deals on all sorts of shit.

And while I'm not a strict Pelosi basher, I don't think she can keep her ducks in a row, because D's are pretty hard to line up to begin with, and under the curent circumstances, I don't think anyone could.