The Bush new way forward still leaves all options on the table.
Cheney would be quick to point out that time is running out and the best way to go forward in the middle east is to have a nuclear explosion there.

"The beauty part", Cheney would add, "is that we could blame anyone we choose for the nuclear detonation."

think about it.

A coalition could be stirred to action as well as a great selling point for the American people to be led into whatever fiasco the neo con terror experts decree. George could be given a speech that would in essence say "See, we told you so!"