Quote Originally Posted by BlueCat

ABC's Terry Moran reported that the only time Bush got applause was in the middle of his speech when a White House advance team member started clapping all on their own in order to cajole the soldiers into clapping, which they dutifully did.

So even the applause was fake....

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Must have missed the part where they stated that the soldiers were told no applause or hooohaaas. OOOOPS, sorry! Just noticed that you watched the ABC version!