Turkey-gate

[vraiblonde]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A33090-2003Dec3?language=printer

The bird is so perfect it looks as if it came from a food magazine, with bunches of grapes and other trimmings completing a Norman Rockwell image that evokes bounty and security in one of the most dangerous parts of the world.

But as a small sign of the many ways the White House maximized the impact of the 21/2-hour stop at the Baghdad airport, administration officials said yesterday that Bush picked up a decoration, not a serving plate.

The Post is upset because Dubya carried around the trimmed turkey while soldiers were served from a - oh the horror! - steam table.

More scandal to impeach Bush over!

The White House has updated its account of an airborne conversation in which a British Airways pilot wondered into his radio if he had just seen Air Force One and was told that it was a Gulfstream 5, a much smaller plane. White House officials first said that the British Airways pilot had talked with the Air Force One pilot. Bush aides now say the conversation occurred between the British Airways pilot and an air traffic control worker.

 

[tlatchaw]

W should have gotten a haircut while blocking the Baghdad airfield. Now THAT would have been okay!

 

[Tonio]

I'm more concerned with how our soldiers are being treated. It's normal Thanksgiving procedure to tease them with a picture-perfect prop turkey? I bet the real turkey on their plates is white meat that's as dry as the Iraqi desert, and the soldiers have to force it down with cloudy drinking water.

 

[vraiblonde]

Originally posted by Tonio
I bet the real turkey on their plates is white meat that's as dry as the Iraqi desert, and the soldiers have to force it down with cloudy drinking water.

Heck, they probably didn't even GET any turkey. All they probably got was crusts of week-old bread found in garbage cans to go with that cloudy drinking water.

 

[vraiblonde]

And you know what? I'll bet those weren't even really soldiers in those pictures. They were probably edited in and superimposed to make it look like they were enjoying a meal instead of being shipped home in body bags. Maybe they were actors portraying soldiers.

You know how Bush lies.

 

[Tonio]

Originally posted by vraiblonde
And you know what? I'll bet those weren't even really soldiers in those pictures. They were probably edited in and superimposed to make it look like they were enjoying a meal instead of being shipped home in body bags. Maybe they were actors portraying soldiers.

You know how Bush lies.

I wasn't blaming Bush. I was blaming the pampered Army brass for taunting the front-line soldiers with fake food.

 

[vraiblonde]

Originally posted by Tonio
I was blaming the pampered Army brass for taunting the front-line soldiers with fake food.

Fake food. Probably spackling compound instead of mashed taters. I have a Mardi Gras necklace that looks exactly like strung cranberries - I'll bet that's what they used.

 

[vraiblonde]

Originally posted by kwillia
I you, Vrai

I *heart* you too!

 

[jlabsher]

It was a real bird. Thought about saying dubya gives soldiers the bird, but caught myself.

Anyway, in the navy we got turkey for thxgiving, yeah not that kind, but there always was a real one on display like that, it went to the officers & chiefs. Us poor bluejackets were happy to get anything, and knowing that the navy eats better than the army does on a bad day, I'll be the soldiers don't really care.

 

[vraiblonde]

The bastages have brainwashed my son! He called and said that he had a nice turkey dinner with all the fixin's on TG. He did admit he had to stand in a line and everything was served out of a steam table but he lied and said there were homemade rolls and butter.

 

[Bruzilla]

We always had real carved turkey on T-Day when I was in the Navy. We had turkey roll on other days, but on T-Day we had the real bird. It was already cut off the bird and in a steam tray, just like these guys got it.

My favorite T-Day in the Navy was when we had the Ready One out of Rota, Spain, and we decided to have a crew-only dinner just in case we got launched and couldn't get to the galley. We got up at 0400 and stuck a turkey in one of those 55-gallon oil drum BBQ rigs. We we're planning on having the turkey and trimmings at 12:00 after the preflight was over, but we got launched to look for a Soviet diesel submarine at 11:30, so we snagged the turkey and the trimmings and went flying.

There's nothing like trying to make gravy, spuds, corn, etc., for a crew of twelve while you're bouncing around at 300 feet looking for a submarine in the Straights of Gibralter.