Say it again, George

I haven't taken the time to do a word-by-word comparison between Bush 43's address tonight
from the Oval Office and his speech last Wednesday that I remarked on in an earlier post, but many of the same catch phrases and sound bites showed up.

It leaves me wondering:
When did "the Architect" decide that George had done well enough in his four 'strike-back-at-Murtha' speeches that he could do a credible encore presentation? Seems to me that it must have been after Dec. 14th, because his talk at the Woodrow Wilson Center had been billed as the last in a series.

It leaves me thinking:
When will Amerca stop accepting the conflation of the "enemy," the "terrorists," and Iraq?
I'm glad to see Bush 43 admit that his intelligence was wrong about WMD, but he and Rumsfeld constantly use pronouns (the departed Paul Wolfowitz was a master at this) to slide among Saddam and al Qaeda and the insurgents fighting against the Americans in the Gulf. Are they not different parties with vastly different interests? Who, exactly, is the "enemy?"

Bush 43 asked tonight for patience from those who doubted his decision to invade Iraq, and asked us not to criticize or demand justification for our troops' sacrifice, lest we be "defeatists."
I'm no defeatist; I just want the truth!

It proves Wolffe right:
The cover article titled "Bush in a Bubble"in the Dec. 19, 2005 Newsweek highlighted Bush's isolation and his black-and-white perspective on world events, contrasting it with the multi-faceted argruments forming the policies of FDR and Clinton. Bush fit that description perfectly with his "victory or defeat" options. The problem is: how do you determine victory here? In 2003, the election of a parliament in Iraq would surely have been considered "victory," but now, 3 days after such an election, there are still US troops in harm's way, and a call to the mysterious "victory." I'm proud of our armed forces; they've accomplished great things on a shoestring budget and with less-than-optimal staffing. Now they deserve to know what it is they're doing, and who it is they're pursuing, and so do the American people.