Speechifying Agin

Well I was going to put up a post on Bush's speech, but to be honest I didn't listen to it. Not because I didn't care, but well, listening to Bush talk is like getting pulled naked through a field of broken glass. I know, that sounds elitist and pejorative of me, but screw it, his drawl has gotten so pronounced, his pace has slowed to that of a drunken snail, and the man needs to hire some new speech writers (cause you and I both know he isn't writing this claptrap).
From the post speech wrap-up I gathered these things,
1. That Bush finally talked about the types of people fueling the insurgency, and that it's not all foreign fighters. Good this is as good a place to start as any, because it is obvious now that the insurgency has been based and built by a disaffected Sunni minority. The faster we realize this and work to co-opt the Sunnis the faster we can get out of there (but first, and most importantly NO SHIITE DEATH SQUADS)
2. the "national strategy for victory" is a timid attempt at policy. I skimmed it yesterday after the speech and like alot of people found it to be lacking in substance and remarkably optimistic in it's projections. Now alot of people have criticized it and i would have to take a moment to link to thinkprogess's debunking, but hell at this point I'll give Georgie Boy a little credit for trying to fix the fuckup he created.
3. Conservatives and Liberals no longer see anything close to eye-to-eye, which is going to fuck things up as we try to extricate ourselves from this situation, and yes, I blame O'Reilly for it.