Actually, he was dodging the rats asking him to join the political arm of the KKK and the pubbies who were tryinbg to push him out of the chopper.
These politicians crack me up with their "frightening experiences." I have yet to take a helicopter flight across Baghdad without the enemy trying to take shots at us. It's all just part of the normal routine here.
And I'm a civilian.
These pols love to grandstand and make mountains out of molehills to impress people, but to us, they just look like a bunch of whiny wimps.