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"Jeffrey Turner" <jturner@localnet.com> wrote in message
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> Thomas Trust wrote:
> > <Laura Bush-Murderess in our WH> wrote:
> >>On Wed, 03 Dec 2003 18:12:26 GMT, "Thomas Trust"
> >><Trust@Americanpride.com> wrote:
> >>><Laura Bush-Murderess in our WH> wrote:
> >>>
> >>>>13 journalists were invited to accompany bush on his Thansgiving day
> >>>>trip to the troops in Iraq. But they were told they couldn't tell
> >>>>their family or even their editor about it!!. Why did the press go
> >>>>along with that restriction? This was nothing but a photo-op for bush
> >>>>and the press had no obligation to keep the story secret until the WH
> >>>>gave them the OK to tell the world. Goddam bush toadies in the media
> >>>>are flat-out working for the GOP.
> >>>
> >>>Dream on. The security reasons behind such precautions is obvious.
> >>
> >>Then the trip should have been cancelled. This was not news, just a
> >>photo-op and the press has no obligation to censor itself to help bush
> >>win votes. Next question.
> >
> > No, the Commander in Chief can visit troops if he damn well pleases.
The
> > actual visit isn't what bothers you, it's that he's doing the right
thing
> > and looking good doing it is what's bothering you, it pisses you off.
>
> It's empty symbolism. Now the president can go back to cutting
> veterans' benefits and other programs that benefit regular Americans.
> Did you get all choked up about the pardoning of the (other) White
> House turkey, too?
>
> --Jeff
>
Um, did you just mention 'empty symbolism' and turkeky pardons in the same
paragraph? Sounds like you cancel yourself out quite nicely.
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