Choosing the right PR window.

As I theorized earlier, one of the reasons for the sudden Bush PR blitz was to get his image out there between the time of the successful Iraqi elections and the inevitable parliamentary wrangling and eventual violence that would follow. It looks like that window may be shutting, so Bush can go back to his renamed "prarie chapel ranch" in Crawford. (Look it up, that name just suddenly came into usage in 2004.)

BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) -- Sunni Arabs on Tuesday challenged partial election results released a day earlier, calling them a ''falsification of the will of the people'' and saying evidence of fraud was abundant. ....

The Iraqi Accordance Front, a coalition of three major Sunni Arab groups, rejected those results, warning of ''grave repercussions on security and political stability'' if the mistakes were not corrected.