Bush gave another speech last night. Don’t know why I bothered to watch. Maybe it was because nothing else was on. Maybe it was because he was supposed to have laid out some actual specifics as to what our Iraq endgame would be. Silly me. It turned out to be little we haven’t heard before. “We will transfer sovereignty by June 30... We will rebuild their security... We will rebuild their infrastructure.” Yes, but how??? In terms of transferring sovereignty, Bush said that an envoy from the UN will decide who will be the new President, Prime Minister, VPs and cabinet members. Sounds like that envoy should have been the one giving the speech instead. Of course no mention was made of the very real possibility that a new Iraqi government would ask U.S. forces to leave the country. Then what? More speeches will be forthcoming in the next month and I really hope they are more illuminating.

Last winter I read “The Da Vinci Code” and really enjoyed it. Now I’m reading “Angels and Demons,” the first Robert Langdon novel. It’s very much in the “Da Vinci” formula and it reads like an season of “24”, fast paced, taking place in one day, with a race to stop a catastrophe from happening. So far, so good!