Under Karl's production and direction, welcome to Dubya's week long "salvage Iraq" (read: "salvage my administration") campaign.

Monday's newswire images of Bush's speech in Cleveland offered some suggestive allusions.  Take this shot for example.  On its face, it involved Bush straining to see.  In an ironic parallel, Bush framed the entire trouble with Iraq as primarily a problem of perception.  Dubya said:

"Others look at the violence they see each night...