did he really say this?

Bush in his press conference said we cannot set deadlines to leave Iraq because we don't want to make the terrorists think they can wait out the troops (and Rumsfeld has said the insurgency could last another decade)

then a minute later, he says the reason he won't send more troops to Iraq is because we don't want the Iraqis to think we are planning on staying ... and because his commanders say they don't need more troops.

So we can't pull out because the insurgents are still strong. But we can't send more troops because we don't want Iraqis to stay... wow, we're fucked.

Of course, he won't mention that he refused to send more troops after the initial strike so we wouldn't screw up the rebuilding process. And of course he didn't mention that one reason we can't send more troops is because we don't have many left...