This is where I get confused. In response to the growing unease that we are "bogged down" in Iraq - not to mention the almost daily ambush of a U.S. soldier or Iraqi civilan - GWB talks about the war on terror - to an American Legion audience no less. Al Queda isn't killing soldiers in Iraq - Iraqis are killing soldiers in Iraq. Are they the terrorists now? They're certainly guerilla soldiers - but that's what happens in a war where your enemy outnumbers, outsizes and outfunds you by billions. The ultimate irony here: those Iraqis who are still fighting - and some of them hated Hussein as much as we did - now view US as the terrorists.

Bush's entire speech was manipulative and meant to appeal to the knee-jerk patriot in all of us. The real issue continues to be our soldiers are being used as policeman in Iraq - and there's not clear plan to get them out of there. On the contrary - Bush is talking about the other countries we could invade if the "terrorists" there aren't careful. I keep asking - where is the outrage? And when are enough people going to stand up and say "this matters."