Another example of Bush’s penchant for misleading us photographically:

“In the most widely published image from his Thanksgiving day trip to Baghdad, the beaming president is wearing an Army workout jacket and surrounded by soldiers as he cradles a huge platter laden with a golden-brown turkey.

The bird is so perfect it looks as if it came from a food magazine, with bunches of grapes and other trimmings completing a Norman Rockwell image that evokes bounty and security in one of the most dangerous parts of the world.

But as a small sign of the many ways the White House maximized the impact of the 21/2-hour stop at the Baghdad airport, administration officials said yesterday that Bush picked up a decoration, not a serving plate.” —Washington Post

The article also observes that Dubya’s pose was not visible to reporters covering the event. The photo was taken by a pool photographer and later distributed to news sources. This is the obvious way to do it if you are going to mislead.