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Mum's the word on Bush's secret mission
Washington Times ^
| 11/28/03
| Joseph Curl
Posted on 11/27/2003 10:18:59 PM PST by kattracks
Edited on 07/12/2004 4:10:54 PM PDT by Jim Robinson.
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The president of the United States, wearing a beat-up work coat, jeans, cowboy boots and a baseball cap pulled down over his face, left his ranch Wednesday night and climbed into an unmarked car with tinted windows. p> He then secretly commuted to a Texas airport, impeded for the first time in three years by traffic lights and stop signs.
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TOPICS: Extended News; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: airforceone; ba; bush43; iraq; thanksgiving; thanksgivingvisit
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posted on
11/27/2003 10:19:00 PM PST
by
kattracks
To: kattracks
This was an awesome and dargerous mission, but it brought with it utter success and great morale-boosting. And that British Airways story WAS true after all! Sounds like maybe this Washington Times reporter was along for the ride?
2
posted on
11/27/2003 10:27:05 PM PST
by
Yaelle
To: kattracks
This guy is just too damn cool!
3
posted on
11/27/2003 10:28:21 PM PST
by
carlson
To: nutmeg
bump
4
posted on
11/27/2003 10:29:15 PM PST
by
nutmeg
(Is the DemocRATic party extinct yet?)
To: kattracks
My family is sick and tired of me telling them that ---this is the coolest thing EVER! Dubya ROCKS!!
5
posted on
11/27/2003 10:34:39 PM PST
by
sissyjane
To: kattracks
At that point, a photographer said to a skeptical colleague, "Do you believe it now?" LOL .. some of them will forever live in denial I guess
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posted on
11/27/2003 10:37:28 PM PST
by
Mo1
To: kattracks
"Do you believe it now Trinity? He is the one!"
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posted on
11/27/2003 10:44:51 PM PST
by
SkyPilot
Comment #8 Removed by Moderator
To: kattracks
"We looked like a normal couple," Mr. Bush said. This comment might get the sleazy liberals a little pissed. G.W. sounding like he gave not a thought that Condi and he would "look like a normal couple". Beautiful!
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posted on
11/27/2003 11:05:37 PM PST
by
thesummerwind
(slip, sliding away.....to Iraq!)
To: kattracks; Yaelle
The president's pilot, Col. Mark Tillman, responded, "Gulf Stream Five" ? referring
to a much smaller plane.
"Oh," replied the British pilot, perhaps catching on, perhaps unaware.
That British Airways pilot couldn't be that stupid. I suspect there is a line or two
redacted from the total story that would probably reveal that the Brits
really are first class stand-up guys.
Not the sorts who'd flunk the eye-chart exam!
10
posted on
11/27/2003 11:13:13 PM PST
by
VOA
To: sissyjane
Yep what a great audacious trip.
11
posted on
11/27/2003 11:18:33 PM PST
by
JLS
Comment #12 Removed by Moderator
To: kattracks
"The airport was blackened and Air Force One, once on the ground, could not be seen. The motorcade traveled to the mess hall full of troops with lights out on most vehicles." No runway lights? I mean, you can fly a full ILS right down to the ground but the left-seater still has a decision height and it IS nice to see the ground, even though the system tells you it's right under your gear. Anyone know what ILS there is at Dadhbagg?
Michael
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posted on
11/28/2003 8:39:07 AM PST
by
Wright is right!
(Never get excited about ANYTHING by the way it looks from behind.)
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