Lie.

Katie Couric to Preznit 30something%...

"I know you care so much about the soldiers in Iraq."

Actually, to be more charitable I suppose it's possible that Ms. Couric, having looked the Preznit in the eye and all, actually believes she 'knows' such a thing.

Either way, it's simply not true. George W. Bush doesn't care about the soldiers in Iraq anymore than he cares about you, and he doesn't give a damn about you (assuming, of course, that I don't get a lot of top tier Republican donors around these parts).

Don't take my word for it, though. There are at least three Republican Senators willing to publicly point out the obvious (emphasis mine)…

The Bush administration has long maintained that no law is needed to establish a system of military commissions, as they are known, for trials of terrorism suspects, but the Supreme Court ruled otherwise in June. The administration still contends that military prosecutors should be able to present sensitive evidence to military judges but withhold it from defendants.

But the sponsors of the legislation — Senate Armed Services Committee Chairman John W. Warner (R-Va.), Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) and Sen. Lindsey O. Graham (R-S.C.) — disagreed. They have embraced the view of senior uniformed military lawyers that blocking defendants’ access to evidence would violate long-standing due-process standards and set a dangerous precedent for trials of captured U.S. military personnel.

Yep, Bushco™'s mania for, ahem, enhanced interrogation and contempt for due process puts the soldiers in Iraq, American soldiers everywhere, for that matter, in greater danger.

It's not a secret, and for men like Warner, a Navy and Marine Corps vet who became Secretary of the Navy, and Graham, a Reserve JAG officer, and McCain, who knows more than anyone should have to know about what captured Americans face, it's obvious.

Of course, that only makes displays like this even more shameful…