This whole, “I’m working on a new strategy for Iraq” thing is sadly obviously a ploy to stall until some magical strategy falls from the sky, but this quote from Bush is telling:

It’s my job to listen to a lot of opinions and come up with a strategy that says we have a plan.

Leaving aside the incoherence of that statement (wasn’t that always your job, and when did you decide to start doing it?), the last phrase says a lot. All he’s trying to do is come up with the strategy to say we have a plan. Not to actually have a plan, nor actually to execute a plan…

yes, yes, I’m parsing the sentence tightly but I don’t think he was stumbling over his words this time.