Because He"s Unpopular, Bush Is Capable Of Anything!

There's something known as political capital.
If you have an electoral mandate as a President, where sixty percent of the voters cast their ballots for you, then you can insist on pressing your agenda in the legislature, and those lesser officials must bend to your will.
So says conventional wisdom.
Bush never had such a mandate, though he acted as if he had.
Now, he's so unpopular, with poll ratings about as low as Lyndon Johnson suffered through, that you would think Bush is a not just a lame duck, but a dead one, politically.
Don't believe it.
W might take dramatic preemptive military action against Iran precisely BECAUSE he's so unpopular.
After all, what does he have to lose if he de-fangs an imminently nuclear adversary? Leaving office with his tail between his legs won't do his political party any good, and it will almost certainly embolden the Democrats, virtually assuring them a victory in 2008.
But becoming the equivalent of a "Give 'Em Hell Harry" Truman as he departs from center stage might earn him some accolades, if not before today's audiences, before tomorrow's.
Look for Bush to cash in his negatives and do something seemingly improbable, even if it means significantly expanding the theater of war in the Middle East.