Surprise, Surprise, Surprise

Earlier today

70,000 coalition forces, most of them Iraqi, to begin crackdown on insurgents in Baghdad on Wednesday, Iraqi PM's office says.

Later today

President Bush arrives in Baghdad on surprise visit to Iraq.

Okay. War. Now if we have 70,000 troops in the city, why on gawds green earth is our president wandering around as well? The troops wern't sent there to fight, they were sent there for a photo op.