It's almost become a parlor game among conservatives. Pick the best scapegoat for President Bush's Iraq catastrophe. In the Weekly Standard, here's 'theologian' Michael Novak's entry. The press lost Iraq.

Or as Novak puts it, "What we have discovered in Iraq is the weakest link in the ability of the United States to sustain military operations overseas. That link is the U.S. media. They are Islamists' best friends."

It's a fascinating narrative they're developing. President Bush can handle and generally kick the ass of the Taliban, al Qaida, Saddam, the Iranians mullahs and everybody else around the globe single-handedly without any help from anyone.

Just as long as someone can protect him from the base of the Democratic party and MSM news editors.