Big Speech Tonite on Iraq

'I think you'll hear tonight what President Bush has been saying all along -- we have a very specific plan.'

WH comm. dir. Dan Bartlett, 'Today,' NBC, 5/24

There will be a major speech tonite outlining the President's plan in Iraq. there has been a lot of build up to this, much by the Administration, and i think this is foolish. There have been longstanding questions as to just WHAT the president's specific plan was on the June 30th deadline. the answer has been an ongoing 'you'll see' reply. this builds up to tonite, where the President couldn't possibly give a satisfactory answer.

I don't mean this in the sense that i could never be happy with the answer, i mean that he's got an expectation now that will be nearly impossible to meet given the current situation. I find it politically amateur-ish, but you know....who cares! couldn't happen to a better guy!