THE FIGHTING CAN'T END - THE FIGHTING IS ALL BUT OVER
Just days after Bush lied in front of and to the troops, saying that al-qa'ida would be "emboldened" by any US moves, his national director of intelligence says that al-qa'ida is all but finished in Iraq ... ("near strategic defeat").
It's no surprise, then, that Bush tucked fancy new nation-building objectives into his speech (there are now economic mission objectives).