Someone help me understand.

Look, I don't want to call anyone names here. There are just somethings that seem not to make sense. From Reuters:

President Bush will seek to convince skeptical Americans that he has a plan to bring stability to Iraq in a prime-time speech on Monday night as he tries to reverse the damaging fallout over Iraqi prisoner abuses.

Bush was not expected to announce any major change in course during his speech, nor give a firm date for a U.S. troop withdrawal.

Right, the whole stay the course thing. Maybe I'll just play a record of the last few press appearances. Obviously, I'm a skeptic, but if the rest of the country agrees with it, then it will help boost their resolve.

Sixty-one percent of Americans now disapprove of the way Bush is handling the situation in Iraq, while just 34 percent approve, according to the (latest CBS) poll.

Oh. So six out of ten people don't like the way things are being handle, so to get their support you tell them it's going to be business as usual? I'm not sure thats going to go over well. Of course, since the only places showing the speech are the cable news networks, the average American will be probably be talking about who ate what on Fear Factor rather than any of this.

Still, I must give props to the President for even trying such a thing. And if he is going to succeed in Iraq and in November, he has to do something to ease both our fears and theirs.