The Bushmobile wheels are a little wobbly.

George Tenet "resigned" as CIA Director, even though Bush said in his interview with Tim Russert that his job was secure.

Then there is Mr. Chalabi, the darlin' of the neocons. An Iranian agent?

Oh, yeah, and then there are the presidential lies. Also from the February 8, 2004 Russert interview transcript:

Russert: If the Iraqis choose, however, an Islamic extremist regime, would you accept that, and would that be better for the United States than Saddam Hussein?

President Bush: They're not going to develop that. And the reason I can say that is because I'm very aware of this basic law they're writing. They're not going to develop that because right here in the Oval Office I sat down with Mr. Pachachi and Chalabi and al-Hakim, people from different parts of the country that have made the firm commitment, that they want a constitution eventually written that recognizes minority rights and freedom of religion.

But Tuesday in the Rose Garden, Bush distanced himself from Chalabi:

"My meetings with him were very brief. I mean, I think I met with him at the State of the Union and just kind of working through the rope line, and he might have come with a group of leaders. But I haven't had any extensive conversations with him."

Whoa. Wait a minute. How about that trip to Irag to serve turkey to the troops?

From the text of Bush's remarks to reporters in Air Force One on his way back from the Thanksgiving trip to Baghdad (this on the official White House website):

"Q: Mr. President, we were told you got to see Mr. Chalabi today?

"THE PRESIDENT: I did see Chalabi. . . . I shook a lot of hands, saw a lot of kids, took a lot of pictures, served a lot of food and we moved on to see four members of the Governing Council -- the names are here. Talibani is the head of it right now, so he was the main spokesman. But Chalabi was there, as was Dr. Khuzaii, who had come to the Oval Office, I don't know if you all were in the pool that day, but she was there -- she was there with him, and one other fellow, and I had a good talk with them."

And if that is not enough, remember Freedom Fries? Remember Freedom Toast? Remember when the White House would not allow anything on the menu that carried the french name. (I wonder if George frenchkissed Laura, he called it freedomkissing?)

From today's New York Times:

PARIS, June 2 — In an effort to repair the rift with France over Iraq, President Bush is calling President Jacques Chirac a friend and saying that he was never angry with the French for opposing the American-led war and occupation in Iraq.

In an interview with the weekly magazine Paris Match that appears as its cover article on Thursday, Mr. Bush also said that not all of the Iraqis attacking American and other foreign troops in Iraq are terrorists.

"They don't like to be occupied," he said. "And neither would I. And neither would anybody."

Mr. Bush and his wife, Laura, will be in France this weekend to commemorate the 60th anniversary of D-Day on June 6 and dine at Élysée Palace with the Chiracs. His remarks in the Oval Office interview seem calculated to rewrite the tortured history of almost two years that has been marked by the most serious divide between the United States and Europe in decades.