Bush: "I'll be dead when they get it right"
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a new poll found only 27% of Americans back his Iraq policy, a new low. And a moderate GOP senator termed the policy "absurd" and possibly criminal.
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Yet Bush is described by another recent visitor as still resolutely defiant, convinced history will ultimately vindicate him.
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I'll be dead when they get it right," he said during an Oval Office meeting last week.
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We're going to start a pullout. The only question is when."
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White House chief of staff Josh Bolten and political guru Karl Rove are busily overseeing Bush's State of the Union address, scheduled for Jan. 23.
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Outside Republican sources report that except for isolated pockets of realism, the West Wing bunker hasn't yet absorbed Bush's diminished power.
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"The White House is totally constipated," a former aide complained. "There's not enough adult leadership, and the 30-year-olds still think it's 2000 and they're riding high."
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"They don't get it," a GOP mandarin snapped. "The Iraq report was their brass ring to pivot and salvage the last two years, and they didn't grab it."
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But we are looking at two frustrating years of gridlock and several foreign policy failures."
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