POTUS: Doesn't even know us, as it turns out

…because the thrust of his speech was “Iraq is worth the sacrifice” and according to polls and reports more and more Americans are thinking “no, it’s not.”

The big criticism seems to be his stubborn linking of Iraq and 9/11, continuing to use the language of terror to refer to the present-day situation in Iraq (“Our mission in Iraq is clear. We are hunting down the terrorists.”) Apparently even the handpicked audience of soldiers a Fort Bragg gave the speech a muted reception; even the one smattering of applause was apparently

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