During the President's lifeless recitation of the notes of his chief aide Rumsfowitz he stumbled across two points that appear to be both verifiably truthful and infinitely obvious. In assessing the needs of successfully rebuilding Iraq Bush noted that it would take more time and money.

Although not specific on a time frame, he did detail the budget requirements. He will be requesting from congress 87 billion dollars in total, 66 billion of which will be to continue military and intelligence efforts. This leaves a whopping 21 billion to rebuild the two countries that the United States currently occupies, which most analysts agree should be plenty to keep Haliburton busy acquiring oil for six to eight months.

Congressional opponents of the war, most of whom voted to allow the President to use force in Iraq, consider the speech and request for more money an indication that they have been right in questioning the war that they overwhelmingly approved.

"While it's true we never asked the administration to produce an exit and reconstruction plan for the war," said an unnamed Democratic standby, "We should have been told everything that we didn't ask before we blindly voted to approve force to make sure we didn't look unpatriotic. It's been the method of this administration to not tell us the things we don't ask, and that is shameful."

Polls which show "replace them all" as the clear leader in every national political race indicate that voters agree that it is, indeed, shameful.

Some sources are indicating that Bush will fully adopt the "state the obvious" strategy in hopes of garnering support in his reelection effort. Drafts of upcoming speeches show the President's speech writers moving away from cliches toward basic truths. For instance, the phrase "Rome was not built in a day" is replaced by less catchy but more accurate "there are only 24 hours in a day." In another speech slated for later this month, the phrase "can't count your chickens before they hatch" will be replaced with the undeniably truthful "who knows, since nothing I promise ever happens."

An approximate 53 viewers watched the President deliver what was presumably supposed to be an inspirational and rousing oration. Reportedly, 27 of those viewers were CNN VCR's.