by Kenneth R. Bazinet

WASHINGTON - President Bush and some of the most vocal Capitol Hill backers of the Iraq war from both parties gathered yesterday for what an insider described as a group therapy session.

"Or maybe it was more like an intervention," said the source, reconsidering the description. "And the President was grateful and welcoming."

Bush met with a grim-looking gaggle of 14 lawmakers and several White House staffers hours after the Iraq Study Group issued its report urging the President to order an about-face on his Iraq strategy.

"It means a lot to me, and I think it means a lot to the American people, to recognize that there are people in this town who are concerned more about the security of this country than they are about the security of their own political positions," Bush said, according to the insider.

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http://www.commondreams.org/headlines06/1207-08.htm

Bring Them Home!

Not that I've heard the term much but, the last time I heard it, this was not what an intervention was supposed to look like. (That is, an affirmation that everything is correct in Bush's course of action and that he must stay on it.)

and HARD!

And frankly I do not think in these terms but, Andy Sullivan said before Nov 7, this isn't an election anymore, it's an intervention.

So I knew something was wrong when this source mentioned the term in that way.