The speech offered no new policies or course corrections, and for the most part was a restatement of the ideas and language that he has been employing for two and a half years...

It was, in essence, a repeat of a speech he delivered 13 months ago, when he assured the nation during an appearance at the Army War College that while the job of achieving stability in Iraq would be hard, he had a plan......he is right there it is called PNAC..

Bottom line is he was willing to manipulate intelligence to promote his own agenda and He failed to send our troops in with what they needed to fight and he failed to plan adequately for what would happen once Saddam Hussein was deposed....He did not listen to his generals and he is the worst CNC that we have ever had.
It is amazing that on the same day Bush used the soldiers at Fort Bragg as a backdrop for his address on Iraq, conservatives in the House have voted to underfund veteransâ?? health care by at least $1 billion.....
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn...062301888.html

ABC's Terry Moran reported that the only time Bush got applause was in the middle of his speech when a White House advance team member started clapping all on their own in order to cajole the soldiers into clapping, which they dutifully did.

So even the applause was fake....

Bush wasted his opportunity giving a speech that only answered questions no one was asking....surprise surprise