As every upper level manager knows, you bring the consultants in to buy you some peace and quiet with the shareholders while you’re deciding whether the buy-out clause in your contract turns out to be more lucrative than the year-end bonus. So why did George W. Bush, the Harvard Business School-educated CEO of the United States of America, let the consultants get all the headlines? After the mid-term elections, all anyone could talk about in Washington was the Baker-Hamilton Iraq Study Group. Leaks from the ISG provided the press with plenty of cannon fodder, as conservative publications went on the offensive against Baker, the man who handed Lebanon over to Damascus, and let Saddam stay in power to become the symbol of anti-Americanism in the region. White House critics on the other hand called it the end of the Neoconservative project in the Middle East, a return to a “mature”
