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"You can choose to see it as a gesture if you like. It wasn't for you, it was for the troops in Iraq. He's the Secretary of Defense, he owes it to them to be there. I'm sure they were all glad to see him, I know I would be if my SECDEF was spending his Christmas with me in Iraq instead of being safely at home. Fortunately I don't have to wonder what that's like, and neither do any of you."
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But I do know what it is like, I spent 20 years in the navy and several christmas's away from home. I knew a gesture then when I saw one and I still do. He did not visit the troops as much as do damage control for homeland consumption.