Bush's isolation portends even greater ugliness

Yep. No doubt.

p m carpenter's commentary: Bush's isolation portends even greater ugliness:

Good god. Now Bush has trouble even getting his friends to talk to him. (He doesn't have any freinds)

'The first meeting in a scheduled two-day summit between President Bush and Prime minister Nuri al-Maliki of Iraq,' reported the NYT, 'was canceled at the last minute today, against the backdrop of threats by a radical Shiite cleric to boycott the Maliki government and the disclosure of a classified White House memo that was highly critical of Mr. Maliki.'

Some are saying the White House deliberately leaked the classified memo as a less than subtle shot over Maliki's bow prior to high-level discussions. That may be, but if true, the tactic was a spectacular flop on several fronts.