Bush trying to spin Iraq progress again at 10:30 a.m. press conference

Over the past couple months, we've witnessed several attempts at interventions with George Bush over Iraq. The release of the Iraq Study Group report was one of those efforts. You may recall that every major network covered the press conference by James Baker and Lee Hamilton. Bush was told he had a major problem in Iraq and provided a way out. But, Bush remained in denial and started the escalation one month later.

Lately, several Republican Senators, Dick Lugar, George Voinovich, Pete Domenici, John Warner among them, have been trying to send Bush the message that he has a problem. Again, he's in denial.

We'll witness again the full breadth of Bush's state of denial at his news conference starting at 10:30 EST. We'll live blog the "highlights." Bush is in spin mode. That's all he does. When Karl Rove is in the room directing the Iraq response, we can expect nothing but political machinations.

George Bush needs an intervention that will hold because he is doing serious damage to the United States...and causing the deaths of U.S. soldiers and Iraqi citizens.

From the press conference:

Bush seems especially petulant and annoyed today. Lots of smirks.

Okay, one of the biggest lies yet was his response to Helen Thomas, "Actually, um, I was hoping to solve the Iraqi issue diplomatically." That's a whopper.

The psychologist-in-chief has diagnosed the American people with "war fatigue" that's "affecting our psychology." Actually, we have Bush fatigue, too. And, since he's into psychological diagnoses, perhaps he can do a little self-examination about his state of denial.

"Hard work." "It's hard work." Didn't we hear that before?

Bush loves talking about Al Qaeda. Heres' an idea. He should read the new report the from National Counterterrorism Center. It's called is "Al-Qaida Better Positioned to Strike the West." Now, you'd think that would capture his attention, but you'd probably be wrong.

Okay, that was incredibly painful. Lies, spin, denial.