Leadership is a tricky business, as President Bush has discovered.
For whatever his true reasons were, Bush sent American troops 3 1/2 years ago to overthrow Saddam Hussein and help convert Iraq into a democracy. The overthrow part went well. The democracy part hasn’t.
Now the president has announced he will order 20,000 additional troops to Iraq in an effort to curb the escalating violence there.
Hardly surprising is the fact that his decision has…