Reply #7: Wonder how many freepturds will claim that

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the crowd was ordered to cheer (ignoring the fact that the "crowd" was not full of military personnel, but the families of the personnel?)

and thus ignoring the probability that the troops that greet Bush with great ovations are possibly ordered to do so?

Side note: I read about how Vince McMahon once goaded the crowd into being louder and rowdier sounding than they really were, and once he got them really "riled up", that's when he started taping the "intro" to the event . . . like the fans really were that excited about an empty ring . . . The Republican party sounds like a Vince McMahon prepared interview . . . and, sadly, it works for them . . .