Michael Graham offers the following thought on Bush’s visit to Iraq. “What can President Bush do in Baghdad that Saddam Hussein can’t? Appear in public. If that doesn’t send a message to the Ba’athists and their would-be allies, I don’t know what does.” (Link via Instapundit.) Graham also notes the following from Bush’s speech to the troops:

“We did not charge hundreds of miles into the heart of Iraq, pay a bitter cost of casualties, defeat a ruthless dictator and liberate 25 million people, only to retreat before a band of thugs and assassins. We will prevail. We will win because our cause is just.”