A Plan For Victory- A Day Later

More fallout and reaction to the President's BIG SPEECH on Iraq.

-A Time reporter who was embedded in Iraq says that the President lied when he said in the speech that Iraqi forces “primarily led” the assault on the city of Tal Afar. The reporter, Michael Ware, was embedded with the U.S. troops who participated in that assault. He said that the Iraqis force did not lead; that the U.S. green beret special forces were the leaders. President Bush... lie? I do not believe it. Think Progress has video of Ware's interview on CNN:
Embedded TIME Reporter: Bush Lied In Speech Yesterday About Iraqi Security Forces

-Andrew Sullivan was impressed by the speech. Mostly impressed that it even took place, but impressed nonetheless:
BETTER

-Jon Stewart looked at the whole story last night. OneGoodMove has video:
Operation Not-That-Bad

-Finally, the New York Times has a fantastic editorial today on the speech:
Plan: We Win

Key passage- It has been obvious for months that Americans don't believe the war is going just fine, and they needed to hear that President Bush gets that. They wanted to see that he had learned from his mistakes and adjusted his course, and that he had a measurable and realistic plan for making Iraq safe enough to withdraw United States troops. Americans didn't need to be convinced of Mr. Bush's commitment to his idealized version of the war. They needed to be reassured that he recognized the reality of the war.

They get it.

The White House still does not.