Press Conference - The President

Press Conference - The President looked and sounded tired. He should. This has got to be an amazingly difficult time.

He was on the most important message, though; before one talks about "final chances", one must remember that Resolution 1441 was a final chance - the last of many final chances.

I think it was the right message - and I think (at first blush) that it was delivered the wrong way. Perhaps it's just me and my own situation - I think Bush needs to deliver a ringing, rabble-rousing barn-burner of a speech sometime before the shooting starts; something like his speech to Congress after 9/11, a neo-Churchillian oration that clearly sets out the job to be done and the means we'll use to do it.

I'm sure he'll get his opportunity.