Surprise! Bush visits Iraq right when Katie Couric happens to show up

Katie Couric interviewed President Bush during his "surprise" visit to Iraq.

The president said "it's hard work" only one time. I would say that's progress, limiting the "hard work" description to a single utterance.

The President also observed that some people didn't think the U.S. should have gone into Iraq in the first place and called that a "solid point of view," hastening to add that it's a point of view with which he disagrees.

Ex-squeeze me?

"Solid point of view"?

Wouldn't that be like FDR, during the darkest days of WW2 (which didn't last as long as the Iraq fiasco), saying that the isolationists (Lindberg, Kennedy, etc.) had a "solid point of view"?

Or LBJ, during the Tet Offensive in Vietnam, saying the two senators who voted against the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution had a "solid point of view"?

Is it just me?

(Here's the CBS News video if you want to see for yourself and think I'm making this up.)

Look, you just can't say in one breath that Ron Paul (or whomever) had a solid point of view before the invasion, then say in the next breath that if the US doesn't succeed in Iraq the radical terrorists are gonna follow our troops home and come kill us all.

And another thing.

What in the hell is CBS doing sending Katie Couric to Iraq?

That's a hell of a way to fix the mistake of hiring her for all that money to replace the "solid" (but old) Bob Schieffer, sending the poor lady to Iraq to get killed.

Don't be surprised if she goes for a Walter Cronkite moment late in the week, saying the war is hopeless. That'd be a headline and ratings grabber.

When Uncle Walter did that on CBS after the Tet Offensive during the Vietnam War, it was supposedly a big turning point for LBJ, who reportedly said something to the effect that when you lose Walter, you're finished.

'Course, times have changed. Katie's no Walter, network news ratings are in the tank, and we've got Paris Hilton, Lindsay Lohan and Britney Spears to worry about.

Plus, they didn't have blogs in the '60s.

Holla-atchya.