The Atlanta Journal Constitution via The Amazin’ Froomkin:

The day after President Bush outlined his new plan for Iraq to a national television audience, he came to this Army training base in southwest Georgia to pitch it to the soldiers who will have to implement it on the battlefield and to their families.

Bush spoke to the handpicked group after a lunch of turkey [not “turkee”?] club sandwiches in a makeshift cafeteria set up in the reception area of Lawson Army Airfield, where troops leave for and return from Iraq.

Except the “handpicked” troops weren’t the ones actually going to Iraq:

About 4,000 soldiers from the 3rd Brigade Combat Team of the 3rd Infantry Division based here are scheduled to go to Iraq soon…. No 3rd Brigade soldiers were in attendance for the lunch or the speech

Gosh, I wonder why?
Even so, applause was tepid:

But his lunchtime talk received a restrained response from soldiers who clapped politely but showed little of the wild enthusiasm that they ordinarily shower on the commander in chief.”

Maybe the troops are just tired of Bush using them for photo-ops to catapult the propaganda? Could that be it?