Bush needs direction...

How's this: "Crawford is thattaway, Tex!<<points southwest>>"

All this cadre of crazies cares about is image. They subscribe to a modified version of P. T. Barnum's Abraham Lincoln's famous dictum: "You may not be able to fool all of the people all of the time, but who cares? We only need to fool just over half of the people once every four years."

Overseas Tensions Force Bush to Change Direction

The latest crisis in the Middle East has disrupted President Bush's plans domestically and internationally at a sensitive juncture, reopening divisions with allies abroad and jeopardizing attempts to restore public confidence at home, according to officials, analysts and diplomats.

The discord at a conference in Rome yesterday over a proposed cease-fire in Israel and Lebanon underscored the widening gap between the United States and Europe over how to stop the fighting. And the images of mayhem from the two-week-old war, combined with the rising death toll in Iraq, have further rattled a domestic audience that polls show was already uncertain about Bush's leadership.

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