[raynearhood]

It's terrible that the media is trying to find something wrong with the Commander-in-Chief visiting his soldiers on Thanksgiving. Oh no, he flew over Baghdad in blackout! Only because it makes sense. I have a feeling that the message sent to the Iraqis wasn't that their country isn't secure, but that the American president cares enough for his soldiers to visit on an American national holiday at the risk of his own life.
I don't see this as a ploy, or an exercise in bravado. If ex-pres. Clinton would have done the same thing, I would have applauded him (no matter how much it hurt). President Bush did a great thing. Hats off to him.

[alloysteel]

This is WAY better than even the carrier landing. Not only does Bush slip in under the very noses of al-Qaeda and the Ba'athist loyalists, but he steals the thunder from Herself, who thought it a tremendous coup to have "bravely" visited the headquarters in Kabul. The soldiers cheering their Commander in Chief contrasts so sharply with the "photo op" Herself seized that it is entirely possible we never even see many of those photos.

[DB]

It's not "terrible" it's funny.

Most Americans won't take too kindly to it.

There's going to be hell to pay for those dissing Bush on this trip so let them scream from the highest mountain for all to hear!