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Bagram G.I.: Troops Waited While Hillary Chowed Down
NewsMax.com ^
| 12/02/03
| Carl Limbacher and NewsMax.com Staff
Posted on 12/01/2003 10:39:22 PM PST by kattracks
New York Sen. Hillary Clinton forced U.S. troops stationed at Bagram air base in Afghanistan to wait for their Thanksgiving dinner last Thursday, while she and her entourage arrived late, then cut in line and were served first.
A soldier who witnessed the scene tells NewsMax:
"Thanksgiving Dinner started at 3 p.m. that day, so the line was forming around 2:30 p.m. She didn't show up until around 3:30 p.m.
"Once she got there," our source maintains, "Clinton and her entourage bumped everyone in line, forcing them to wait almost an extra hour."
The brass at Bagram apparently had a hard time rounding up New Yorkers who wanted to have dinner with Mrs. Clinton. Only six G.I.'s responded to an email sent out last week that stated, "Looking for military members from New York and Rhode Island interested in meeting their Senator/Congressman."
People Magazine was on hand to cover the event and wanted to interview the troops for reaction to Mrs. Clinton's visit.
"But they were getting declined left and right," our source said. "People were actually telling the reporters 'You don't want to print what I think about her and her visit.'"
After Clinton and her entourage departed, the only topics G.I.s wanted to talk about were "how great the food was and how fantastic they thought George Bush's visit to Iraq was."
TOPICS: Front Page News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: hillary; iraq; thanksgivingvisit; tokyohillary
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To: kattracks
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To: sweetliberty
That's a great cartoon!!!
To: sweetliberty
This evil creature doesn't even make a pretense of class or propriety! She's white trash...and the trash was never taken out of the Governor's Mansion or the White House until she moved out.
To: kattracks
I hope they dropped her slice of turnkey on the floor, before serving it to Her Thighness.
124
posted on
12/02/2003 3:19:11 PM PST
by
Paul Atreides
(Is it really so difficult to post the entire article?)
To: Paul Atreides
I wonder what the soldiers who got the wish bones wished for - I know what I would have been wishing ;0)
125
posted on
12/02/2003 5:35:54 PM PST
by
Chad Fairbanks
(Friendship is like peeing your pants, everyone can see it, but only you can feel it's true warmth!)
To: Chad Fairbanks
What a shame that our military couldn't have bagged her and sold her off to some desperately ugly sheik, who would take anything as long as it was remotely female.
BTW, your tagline is hilarious.
126
posted on
12/02/2003 6:15:09 PM PST
by
Paul Atreides
(Is it really so difficult to post the entire article?)
To: All
I can rememeber when I was stationed in Japan on the USS Independence. Bill Clinton along with Hillary were visting Tokyo and they scheduled a visit to the ship to talk to the sailors. Well the ship itself has about a 4000 member crew when the airwing isn't embarked. The rest of the Fleet was inport so plenty of sailors available for the visit. We had seating for about 1000 set up plus standing room for many more. To make a long story short they expected around 5000 to show for the show. Only got about half that much. Bill and Hillary arrived by helo and saw the small crowd. Anyway there was a quick call made and school was let out on base for all the school kids. They got those kids over to the ships ASAP it was kind of neat actually watching the youngins being brought up to the flight deck on the elevators. But the point is even back then and I think is was 1990 or so no one really wanted to be near these people.
127
posted on
12/02/2003 6:28:24 PM PST
by
Terp
(Retired US Navy now living in Philippines were the Mountains meet the Sea in the Land of Smiles)
To: kattracks
Too funny, and all too predictable.
Thank you.
128
posted on
12/02/2003 6:31:09 PM PST
by
lodwick
( Wake up, America)
To: Thommas
Sorry to disagree with you my dear Brother: but in fact, they do get it!
Probem is, they just don't care.
After all, the way they see it, they don't have to prove anything.
It's the "Politics of Meaning" that counts.
And it hasn't got a thing to do with matching action to their carefully crafted words!
To: backhoe
Thanks for all the links. I have a reason to bookmark this thread now (like I needed another one!).
130
posted on
12/03/2003 8:41:47 AM PST
by
CSM
(Stop the MF today!!! (Flurry, 11/06/2003))
To: kattracks
She and her entourage butted to the front of the line.....too bad the CO didnt have the cajones to tell her and her "entourage" that this mess hall is for troops first...and VIPs (in their own minds) go last.....
If Hillary had one onze of character or even enough sense to play it to the media...she would have insisted the men and women who are fighting actually eat first...
That kind of selflessness is totally beyond the Clinton's....who are the embodiment of complete lack of character -narcisisstic -borderline -personality disorders
If she ever got elected president...America would be finished...kick some dirt over it..
131
posted on
12/03/2003 1:24:53 PM PST
by
joesnuffy
(Moderate Islam Is For Dilettantes)
To: kattracks
People Magazine was on hand to cover the event and wanted to interview the troops for reaction to Mrs. Clinton's visit. "But they were getting declined left and right," our source said. "People were actually telling the reporters 'You don't want to print what I think about her and her visit.'"
They DECLINED such an offer??
Big mistake. Far more people read People than NewsMax.
To: MegaSilver
question: when Hillary has turkey or pork is that cannibalism?
133
posted on
12/07/2003 4:06:50 PM PST
by
breakem
To: kattracks
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