And another thing ...

Matt Yglesias belittles the president's speech as well, which is good to read.

And I thought of this - last year, during the election, Bush claimed that thousands of Iraqi soldiers had been trained and were combat-ready. Last night, however, he said that only a few had been trained in 2004, but now thousands had been trained and were combat-ready.

So ... we've either made absolutely no progress in our ability to train Iraqi soldiers, or the president uttered a boldfaced lie during a political campaign in order to deflect (proper) criticism and get re-elected. Either option strikes me as being not good.