So, all you are doing, Mr. Bush, is planning to reduce your "surge" to levels almost as low as before your "surge." But you should never have done the "surge" in the first place. And, by the time you reduce that level to pre-surge numbers, it will have dragged on for 18 additional months.

Truth is - you have to reduce the troops by next summer because you have "run out of troops." I am sure that if you had not "run out" of available soldiers to send to Iraq, that you would send more. Therefore, your reducing troop levels back down to 130,000 by mid or late 2008 is a necessity. It is quite disingenuous of you to go on national TV and try to paint the picture different from reality.

Mr. Bush, I am ashamed of that my nation has a president that is less than truthful and one who is trying to be so clever and manipulative. I regret that my fellow citizens and I have to endure a president that makes insults like that to our collective intelligence.

We are tired of the dying, the killing, the disabling injuries. And, we are tired of the deception. We know Iraq is a mistake. Do you? Do you even know the truth?

I, for one, might skip your speech. I hear that immediately following your speech, on MSNBC, John Edwards will be addressing the nation this evening. When I listen to John Edwards speak, I feel the hope and optimism that your presidency has threatened to take from me. Tonight, whether I listen to you or not, I will be tuning in to MSNBC to hear what Mr. Edwards has to say.

I need to believe in leadership again - to believe that a leader of my country serves me with honesty, humility and a compassion for the struggles I face in my day to day life.

Mr. Bush, you do not inspire me. You do not give me hope. You sadden me.