In news on the Iraq war–President Bush delivered a 17-minute prime-time televised address Sunday in defense of the war. Bush appealed to Americans to be patient in a “difficult, noble and necessary cause” and not be swayed by “defeatists who refuse to see that anything is right”. While he vowed the U.S. was winning the war, he admitted not all was going as planned.

• President Bush: “This work has been especially difficult in Iraq–more difficult than we expected. Reconstruction efforts and the training of Iraqi Security Forces started more slowly than we hoped. We continue to see violence and suffering, caused by an enemy that is determined and brutal–unconstrained by conscience or the rules of war. Some look at the challenges in Iraq, and conclude that the war is lost, and not worth another dime or another day. I don’t believe that.”