So I've been looking at the administration's National Strategy for Victory in Iraq report (PDF available here) and I finally realize what Bush reminds me of.

A proselytizing pamphleteer on a streetcorner.

I mean, specifically, the kind who delivers a message you've heard thousands of times already as if this time it's going to penetrate: "Did you know that Jesus loves you and that he died for you on a cross?" The Victory in Iraq report even seems like a streetcorner pamphlet: 38 pages of utterly familiar, breathless bullet points:

Prevailing in Iraq will help us win the war on terror.

• The terrorists regard Iraq as the central front in their war against humanity. And we must recognize Iraq as the central front in our war on terror....

> If we and our Iraqi partners prevail in Iraq, we will have made America:

• Safer…
...
• Stronger…
...
• More Certain of its Future …

It's all like that. It's clearly written in the belief that this time you'll get it. Pathetic.