[MattAMiller]

Quickly scanning through the comments here it looks like I'm in the minority by being disappointed. I wanted to here more of a defense of our progress in Iraq and less of this "new front in the War on Terror" business. It's all true, and it's better there than here. But it isn't much of a selling point.

I got the feeling he was trying to rejustify the war, which is pretty much a settled issue. What he should have done tonight was show some follow through. And he didn't do that.

[Peach]

I must take exception with your thought that President Bush didn't show follow-through, or perhaps I just don't understand your comment.

He said failure was not an option and so many other things that suggested we will follow through - whatever it takes - mentioned WWII Marshal Plan and how long that took and what it cost but was worth it in the end.

[LS]

I disagree with the premise (I only read the speech, though), but I think the essence of everything we do is to REMIND people of why we are even in Iraq and Afganistan. That IS our "progress," to keep the Twin Towers before the people's eyes. If we do that, we will not get caught up in a bomb blast here, or a casualty there, but focus on the VICTORY that we must achieve.