Great Moments in Journalism: Bitter Tea
Great Moments in Journalism are submitted by readers, and can be sent to this address. Your Moment comes from Monday's NYT News Analysis of President Bush's possible shift in strategy in Iraq.
Mr. Hadley offered a different explanation on Sunday, saying on NBC's "Meet the Press" that after the first leaks of the Iraq Study Group's conclusions, the president simply felt "he needed to stop" any talk that the commission, led by James A. Baker III and Lee H. Hamilton, was going to provide "cover for an American withdrawal."
"That's cut and run and, of course, as the president has said, cut and run is not his cup of tea," Mr. Hadley said.
But commission members say it is not tea they will be serving on Wednesday, but rather a more powerful brew, infused with the realities of a war on the brink of spinning beyond Washington's control.
Mmmm, war brew!