The MSM's One Note Samba

As noted at Power Line, today's dead tree rehash of yesterday's Presidential press briefing is remarkably uniform, and predictably dour.

Washington Post:  Bush Says U.S. Troops Will Stay in Iraq Past '08
Washington Times:  Bush Commits Until 2009
Associated Press:  Bush: Troops to Stay in Iraq for Years
New York Times:  Bush Concedes Iraq War Erodes Political Status - "...American forces would remain in the country until at least 2009."

This cherry-picked lead point, extracted from a wide-ranging, hour-long conversation, was predicated on Bush's comment that the day when we have zero troops remaining in Iraq "will be decided by future presidents and future governments of Iraq."  Is it terribly shocking (or even newsworthy) that we would expect to have some measure of forces remaining in Iraq at least into the next Presidential administration?  To this day, we still have troops in Bosnia, Kosovo, and South Korea after all.

A far more intriguing portion of yesterday's presser had to be the President's deft joust [video] with the Wicked Witch of the West Wing Helen "If Dick Cheney Runs For President, I'll Kill Myself" Thomas.