Will Bush choose his new friends over his old?

Oh, Pulleeze! Since when has Goergie listened to anyone except Dick Cheney, posing as God?

Besides, these people are not Junior's friends, they are Poppy's friends. Given Junior's Oedipal issus, does anyone beieve he is going to really change course?

Will Bush choose his new friends over his old? Salon.com:

Dec. 8, 2006 At a press conference on Thursday, George Bush was asked whether he was 'in denial' about Iraq. 'It's bad in Iraq,' he shot back, to laughter. 'That help?' He also noted that the report of the James Baker-led Iraq Study Group, which was released Wednesday, was important enough that he had read it.

But the immediate speculation in Washington was that even if the president has really accepted that things are 'bad,' it doesn't mean he's ready to follow the ISG's advice on how to make things better. Some wondered which prescriptions he would ignore, while others suggested he might be trying to sabotage the ISG's suggested remedies altogether.

The reality is that the president, via briefings, has probably long been aware of what the ISG report would say. In fact, when Bush met Iraq's two leading Shiite politicians in the week just prior to the report's release, he was almost certainly acquainting Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki and Supreme Council for Islamic Revolution in Iraq party chief Abdul Aziz al-Hakim with the ISG's key proposals.