The New York Times editorializes:

The document, and Mr. Bush’s speech, were almost entirely a rehash of the same tired argument that everything’s going just fine. Mr. Bush also offered the usual false choice between sticking to his policy and beating a hasty and cowardly retreat.

And here’s the lede for the story written by Dexter Filkins and John F. Burns same day, same paper, titled “For Once, President and His Generals See the Same War:

BAGHDAD, Iraq, Nov. 30 – For anyone who has spent time in the field with American officers here, President Bush’s speech on Wednesday was a watershed: for the first time in the two years since the conflict here turned brutal, the war Mr. Bush described sounded much like the one his generals grapple with every day.

Nod to reader Patrick.