Bush's policies falling apart: "This morning's muted handover of political authority to an interim Iraqi government may be President Bush's best shot at reestablishing his foreign policy credentials abroad and bolstering them at home.
Will it be enough? Recent news reports and analyses describe Bush's foreign policy as discredited and his display of diplomatic strength as mostly limited to grip-and-grins with world leaders.
His visit to Europe is sparking protests in the streets and defensiveness from the White House, which reprimanded an Irish television reporter for being disrespectful in her interview with the president last week.
Meanwhile, it turns out that several senior aides to Bush and Vice President Cheney had input into the crafting of the torture memo that the White House repudiated under intense pressure last week.
And as Dean Goodman of Reuters, writing about the record-breaking opening weekend for 'Fahrenheit 9/11', put it: 'Bush-bashing became the nation's favorite spectator sport over the weekend.'
Also today: The F-word update."
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