I wish we had a president who could think, reason, and speak. It does not appear that this president has mastered any of those tricks.

As Maureen Dowd put it, "The president is on a continuous loop of sophistry: We have to push on in Iraq because Al Qaeda is there, even though Al Qaeda is there because we pushed into Iraq. Our troops have to keep dying there because our troops have been dying there. We have to stay so the enemy doesn’t know we’re leaving. Osama hasn’t been found because he’s hiding."

For all the president's ranting about staying the course and the catastrophe our leaving would be - Bush is planning on withdrawing half the troops within months. When the Democrats talk about leaving Bush calls it "defeat". I wonder what he'll call it when he talks about leaving.

Betcha it won't be "defeat".