As usual, the MSM is presenting Bush’s press conference yesterday as discouraging for all concerned. No surprise there. What else have they done for the past six years? So it’s worth reading the transcript of the event, without the Bush-is-failing, the-war-is-lost, the sky-is-falling spin, to make up your own mind.
"I want the Iraqis to understand that we believe that if they stand up, step up and lead, and with our help we can accomplish the objective. And I want the enemy to understand that this is a tough task, but they can’t run us out of the Middle East, that they can’t intimidate America. They think they can. They think it’s just a matter of time before America grows weary and leaves, abandons the people of Iraq, for example. And that’s not going to happen."
THE TEXAS SCRIBBLER 
Thanks for this. I missed the conference and ALWAYS am struck by the enormous differnce between my take and what’s reported about Bush’s press conferences.
Indeed, I try always to read the transcript. The MSM–including the NYPost at the link there, despite its usually being sympathetic to Bush–just lifts stuff out and plugs it into its narrative. I wish they would all lose the narratives and go back to trying to be objective. But I suppose that’s a forlorn hope.