fuzzy logic...

So the president's new rational for why we're still in Iraq is because lots of soldiers have already died there and we owe it to them to make their sacrafice worthwhile?

Let's analyze the message there. First, Bush admits and acknowledges the undeniable fact that "things aren't going well in Iraq" and more importantly, "things aren't going as I (Bush) promised they would."

Congratulations on learning how to admit your mistakes, Mr. President...

Now... who admits to a mistake - and then states that he's going to continue to do what resulted in the mistake in the first place? George W. Bush, that's who.

And to top it off, he says that doing so will make the fallen soldier's ultimate sacrafice worthwhile? It wasn't a worthwhile sacrafice before!? That's what it looks like he's saying to me...

And even if he isn't (we all know this president has problems with public speaking), how does more soldiers sacraficing their lives redeem the lives lost by previous soldiers?

This is the same kind of thinking that decided pointless trench warfare in WWI would be a good idea until entire generations were wasted. Nothing was accomplished then, and if we're sending more soldiers into Iraq just because the soldiers we sent in before have died, then nothing will be accomplished now.

Note: I'm not saying that nothing good is being accomplished in Iraq... I'm saying that staying there because people have died there, rather than the goal on accomplishing more good is stupid - and it's stupid to say that that's why we're there. Bush was better off when he was pointing to good goals that we hadn't accomplished yet as the reason for us being there...