And so it goes
There were no surprises in President Bush's speech tonight announcing his doomed plan to commit 20,000 more troops to the failed Iraq War. He stared intently and obviously into the Teleprompter, rarely, if ever, connecting with his presumed audience as he read the speech prepared for him. The wording of it was pedestrian, predictable and uninspiring. One wonders which White House intern got the duty of assembling this one. The President seemed to shrink visibly as he spoke.
Bush seems more and more like Lyndon Johnson trying to salvage the Vietnam War. Unlike Johnson, though, he has no major domestic accomplishments that will lead future historians to say that, well, at least he passed the Voting Rights Act. Or created Food Stamps. Or did any of a hundred other things that made life better for the average American.