Chester hits a few points that have troubled me for a long time, and has the beginnings of some solutions. Read Time for a Pep Talk: What Bush Should Say on June 28th:

"President Bush has a major address planned for June 28th, the one year anniversary of the transfer of sovereignty back to the Iraqis. What will he say?

He needs to give the pep talk of his life. He needs to tell the American people that there has been great progress in Iraq and needs to lay that out explicitly. He needs to give concrete examples of the progress of Iraqi forces and note as clearly as possible how our own presence there depends upon their progress. He needs to spell out clearly where the path to victory leads, and he needs to be very, very clear about the catastrophic results of a premature withdrawal.

He then needs to ask people for sacrifice, and for two kinds of sacrifice....[more]"

Interesting echoes of some things Sen. Biden and Sen. McCain have both been saying of late - and makes sense to me. The fact that Chester needs to write about these desired calls for sacrifice in 2005 highlights one of the biggest strategic mistakes of this war to date.