It looks like Bush's fake, rehearsed talk with soldiers is (justifiably) getting good media coverage.
At what point doesit cease to be a democracy when even the paranoia of potential off-message comment mandates a play-acted production instead of an honest discussion about this idiotic war?

The president went on to read some dreck about how our foreign hostilities will 'never stop'.
Before the teleconference, Allison Barber, deputy assistant to the secretary of defense, went through a rehearsal of the scripted question-and-answer session, telling the troops that any non-scripted questions from the president should be handled by Kennedy.