a Core as solid as a Cadbury Cream Egg...

My sister blog, A Penny Saved, posted an entry yesterday supporting President Bush and claiming that his Press Conference on Tuesday, while ineloquent, was founded on solid ground. As I've repeatedly said this week, "What the F***."

What exactly about his comments were solid at the core? When asked about the timeline for getting American troops out of Iraq, the President answered, "In terms of how long we’ll be there, as long as necessary, and not one day more." That’s some solid exit strategy.

When asked who we will transfer sovereignty over to, President Bush said, "We’ll find that out soon. That’s what Mr. Brahimi is doing. He’s figuring out the nature of the entity we’ll be handing sovereignty over." So the Iraqis aren’t figuring our their government, a bureaucrat is? The turnover is only 76 days away, and we have yet to figure out the nature of the entity we will be giving control of Iraq to? Some solid forward thinking.

Some other solid forward thinking was put forth by the Bush Administration in the months before 9/11, when they stated ICBMs, not terrorism, was American's biggest threat. Yet the conservative supporters of President Bush say it's unfair to call President Bush on his position? How does that work?

Furthermore, the conservatives say I can argue that North Korea with it's nuclear warheads and intercontinental ballistic missiles is more of a world threat than Iraq, but can't point out that Saddam posed no threat to the United States and it was wrong to preemptively invade Iraq?

How the conservatives can talk about double standards is beyond me...