On the very day that we find out President Bush authorized domestic spying, we now learn that the President will... [drumroll please]
Give Another Speech!!
President Bush will address the nation about Iraq on Sunday evening, his first speech from the Oval Office since he announced the beginning of the U.S.-led invasion in March 2003.
And this time the media is finally noting the number of speeches that he seems inclined to give on this one topic...
The address at 9 p.m. ET comes on the heels of a two-week, four-speech blitz to build support for a war that a majority of Americans now say was a mistake.
Bush began the series on Nov. 30 at the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis, Md., by focusing on the progress in training Iraqi security forces. That was followed by an address to the Council on Foreign Relations, an independent think tank, about rebuilding Iraq's economy.
On Monday, Bush appeared before Philadelphia's World Affairs Council and emphasized efforts "to help the Iraqi people build a lasting democracy in the heart of the Middle East." In his fourth speech, before the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, a nonpartisan forum for the study of world affairs, Bush said the responsibility for invading Iraq based in part on faulty weapons intelligence rested solely with him.
This seems to be the administration's new "orange alert" and "red alert" methodology. Apparently the "Happy Holidays" distraction wasn't working, so now we have to give a Sunday evening speech to dominate the Monday headlines (rather than the discussions on the domestic spying that will no doubt dominate the Sunday morning news shows).
Is there any other way to view this latest speech announcement?