"There's only one person who is responsible for making that decision [to go to war], and that's me. And there's only one person who hugs the mothers and the widows, the wives and the kids on the death of their loved ones. Others hug, but having committed the troops, I've got an additional responsibility to hug, and that's me, and I know what it's like." -- GWB to Barbara Walters, ABC "20/20," 12/13/02.

So the big question I have is, has Bush hugged anyone yet? You would figure that the political value of a public hug might just balance out the admission that another [young, low-income] American is dead.