I just got finished watching Fox News Sunday and Bill Kristol made a good point about why Bush isn't going to spend a lot of time talking about Iraq in his SOTU address. He said, and this makes perfect sense to me, that Tony Blair is coming for talks with Bush and Bush doesn't want it to look like that firm decisions have been made before he talks with Tony Blair. He said that Tony Blair has done absolutely everything that we could expect from an ally, and Bush is helping Blair out by holding down his Iraq talk in the SOTU, so that it won't look like this meeting between Blair and Bush is just Bush giving Blair his marching orders, so to speak.
Good point. We have some allies in Europe (UK, Spain, possibly Italy, and a couple of Eastern European countries - Russia could have been one, but I'm afraid it's not) and I think it's important to give them credit and make it clear that we are in this together.
Still, I hope Bush says something about the Iraq situation. That's what's holding the economy down right now: the uncertainty.