The new "new plan for Iraq"

Bush is holding a two day strategy session on Iraq starting Monday at Camp David. (He went to Camp David Friday afternoon, but the meeting isn't until Monday. I guess he can't be disturbed on his "weekends.")

But take a look at the characterizations of this meeting by those involved.

One of the senior officials involved in the strategy session characterized it as a "last, best chance to get this right," an implicit acknowledgment that previous American-led efforts had gone astray....

in an analogy used by several American officials, to begin to let go of the bicycle seat and find out if the Iraqi government can stay upright with less American support.....

Both American and Iraqi officials now acknowledge that they will have to seek billions in investment and aid from Persian Gulf nations that have been unwilling to contribute many dollars or any soldiers.....

At least they're finally recognizing that Iraq is a disaster, even if it is off the record. But wait, before you get excited, take a look at what they think is the solution.

"None of these problems — or even the solutions that are being proposed — are new," said one former senior official who worked extensively on reconstruction, but did not want his name published because he still deals with the administration regularly. "What's been lacking is the political will."Administration officials say they are not trying to reinvent the reconstruction, but rather relaunch it.

You see, according to administration officials, the problems in Iraq are just that the programs have been marketed wrong, and once they're relaunched in their gleaming new packaging, with the proper political will to let US soldiers die while we wait, then the Iraqis will buy in and it will work. Honest.

More of the same.

(Which non-FoxNews media host do you think will be the most glowing as they speak of this repackaging as "a recognition of past mistakes" and "the president really attacking the problem?" Daryn Kagan? Tucker Carlson? The CNN White House correspondent, Maseurve?)