Whatever video you nmight see on Obama's visit to Iraq and Afghanistan, bear in mind that it was staged.

Andrea Mitchell, on MSNBC's Hardball, on the use of these materials:

ANDREA MITCHELL: This is message [referring to the video MSNBC played] -- Let me just say something about the message management. He didn't have reporters with him, he didn't have a press pool, he didn't do a press conference while he was on the ground in either Afghanistan or Iraq. What you're seeing is not [what?] reporters brought in. You're seeing selected pictures taken by the military, questions by the military, and what some would call fake interviews, because they're not interviews from a journalist. So, there's a real press issue here. Politically it's smart as can be. But we've not seen a presidential candidate do this, in my recollection, ever before.