Thursday, December 18, 2003
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A Baghdad Turkey's Lingering Aftertaste
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For Thanksgiving, our president-for-life created a potentially deadly crash scenario in the skies over Great Britain when the pilot of Air Force One lied to the British air traffic controllers; he donned an official vestment of men and women who have died for their country; he ran around with a specially designed rubber-chicken/turkey-on-a-platter prop looking for a cameraman, any cameraman; then he collected his sizable entourage, he turned around and he came home. Where they all proceeded to lie to the American people about everything they had just done. Sweet.
Oh. By the way, it's not just the Navy which is fair game for the PhotoOp-er-in-Chief any longer; he's now turned our brave soldiers into a backdrop for photo ops as well. That was the Army's 1st Armored Division you saw there, standing in behind Shrub. They're mission was to look as much like the banner that administration aides draped across the USS Abraham Lincoln as they could. The 1st AD was thoroughly pre-screened, and were hand-picked to be the "Official 'Mission Accomplished' Brigade" in the photo-ops.
Notice all the photos with the young African American soldier? In Iraq, Bush has put guys like him in Harm's Way; back in Texas, Bush put guys like him on Death Row.
By the way, the regular, non-photo-opable grunts, the ones who've been shot at every day since March, had to stand outside and wait until the Flight Suit Tour passed through before they could get close enough to sniff any Thanksgiving festivities.
Re-Elect this man, I say!
posted by Gotham 3:31 AM
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