The decider has decided. Nyeaaaah

Apparently everyone has the headline right on this story.  What does the body of the story say?

President Bush has decided the general direction he wants to take U.S. policy on Iraq and has asked his staff to work out the details as he wraps up a highly public review of the war and its aims.

Wrap up the review!  The new general direction has been set.  And it is...

Military commanders who met Tuesday with Bush sought more advisers to train the Iraqis, not more U.S. combat troops in Iraq.  They also urged the administration to pour significantly more funding into equipment for Iraqi security forces, according to a defense specialist familiar with the meetings.

Gen. John Abizaid, top U.S. commander in the Middle East, and Gen. George Casey, the top general in Iraq, want more armored vehicles, body armor and other critical equipment for the Iraqis, said the defense specialist, who requested anonymity because the discussions were private.

Abizaid has told the Senate Armed Services Committee that troop levels in Iraq need to stay fairly stable and the use of military adviser teams expanded.  About 140,000 U.S. troops and about 5,000 advisers are in Iraq.

The message to Bush, the defense specialist said, is that the U.S. cannot withdraw a substantial number of combat troops by early 2008, as suggested in the Iraq Study Group report, because the Iraqis will not be ready to assume control of their country.  Bush is delaying making public his new Iraq policy plan in part to allow officials to work out the funding, he said.

Does anyone remember that accountability moment put on by the government a month ago?  Well, he's not listening to the polls, either. 

I suggest that we prepare for all-new levels of citizen cynicism.  (How does a bill become a law, anyway?)