Worst Press Conference Ever

Does President Bush understand his own foreign policy?

By Fred Kaplan
Posted Tuesday, Aug. 8, 2006, at 6:08 PM ET

George W. Bush's news conference on Monday was the most dismaying spectacle put on by a top American official since Condoleezza Rice's news conference two and a half weeks earlier.

Both the president and the secretary of state were addressing the Israel-Lebanon conflict and why they favored peace but not right away.