Bush's Iraq plan speech: spoken "with the confidence of a perp in a police lineup"

Howard Kurtz's breakdown of the media reaction to the much-leaked speech, including the above reaction from Newsweek's Howard Fineman.

As for the actual content of the speech, Congress was well prepared to be unpleasantly surprised. They may have a point, though. History is not on the side of the last-ditch, politically expedient, face-saving effort.