dinner, forcing some to have MRE's rather than their promised turkey
dinner. All for a photo op.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A57870-2003Dec11.html
From the article:
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Stars and Stripes is blowing the whistle on President Bush's Thanksgiving
visit to Baghdad, saying the cheering soldiers who met him were
pre-screened and others showing up for a turkey dinner were turned away.
The newspaper, quoting two officials with the Army's 1st Armored Division
in an article last week, reported that "for security reasons, only those
preselected got into the facility during Bush's visit. . . . The soldiers
who dined while the president visited were selected by their chain of
command, and were notified a short time before the visit."
The paper also published a letter to the editor from Sgt. Loren Russell,
who wrote of the heroism of his soldiers and then added: "[I]magine their
dismay when they walked 15 minutes to the Bob Hope Dining Facility, only to
find that they were turned away from their evening meal because they were
in the wrong unit. . . . They understand that President Bush ate there and
that upgraded security was required. But why were only certain units turned
away?"
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And this decision was from a president who so cares for the soldiers who
are fighting and in some cases dying for his adventurism. He cars so much
he has not attended a single funeral of a soldier killed in Iraq, and has
reduced vet benefits.
I guess as far as he's concerned since they are not big investors or
contributers to his 200 million + campaign war chest, so what.
larry
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