'On the Road in Iraq With Our Troops and Gary Sinise' - FNC, Sat., 1-10-09

Fox News ^ | 1-9-09

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In this exclusive FOX News documentary, actor and activist Gary Sinise shares the "on the road" experiences he had last summer in Iraq while visiting American troops.

Some 25 hours of his adventure was captured verite style with a handheld camera. Sinise does his best to meet his goal of what he says is "5000 handshakes, 2000 miles in seven days."

The personal footage captures heartfelt meetings between Sinise and the troops in Kuwait and the Iraqi cities of Al Qaim, Al Asad, Ramadi and Baghdad.

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On the teevee - right now!
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And I was lucky enough to stumble onto the “Lt. Dan” road-show.
Because I just had to hear Huckabee interview Ann Coulter and
Jerry Springer.
(Not at the same time...that might be a combustible mix!)

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This is GREAT so far!
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The tour of one of Saddam’s estates reminds me of a story in the
Wall Street Journal maybe a year ago.

It recounts how a bunch of Saddam’s closest followers were watching
a film (some Hollywood production, but I can’t remember the title) when
a big @$$-whoopin’ American bomb came through the ceiling.

Burying hundreds of Saddam’s best buds when the place collapsed.
And now Coalition personnel work/live adjacent to this “instant
cemetary”.

[Irish Eyes]

I am watching this now 7:30 pm Az time . This is one wonderful man.

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A SUPER American!! Whattaguy .. quiet warrior,
just getting it done. God bless him, and God
bless and protect our troops.

[Libloather]

Who knew?

Saddam's Flintstone Fixation
Baghdad as Bedrock

In the initial days of the U.S. attack on Iraq, one of Saddam Hussein's Baghdad palaces was targeted as a strategic target. However, the palace, built by Saddam for his grandchildren as a "theme palace," was anything but a repository for weapons of mass destruction.

In fact, Saddam, who used to watch Flintstone cartoons with his grand kids, decided to build a palace in Baghdad that was a replica of Bedrock, the fictional town where Fred, Wilma, Barney, Betty, and Dino lived. The palace was a huge playground for Saddam's grandchildren. However, Pentagon planners decided that Bedrock Palace was a threat to the West and it was demolished within the first few hours of the war.

Plenty of pics - http://gocomics.typepad.com/the_sandbox/2008/07/flintstone-vill.html

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Ditto!

How ‘bout those troops ..... youzza!!

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Saddam's Flintstone Fixation

Was that incredible or WHAT? I'm a pretty serious news junkie, and I didn't know a thing about that "Flintstone village" for Saddam's grandchildren.

The Gary Sinise documentary was excellent, but I sure wish it had aired just before the election in November... Saddam was another Hitler, and it wasn't the 'RATs who got rid of him...

[nutmeg]

God bless the humble Gary Sinise! What an amazing hour that was... just an incredible documentary. Hope Fox News runs it again and again...

[nutmeg]

Check out the Lt. Dan Band! Gary can sure play that bass guitar!

ltdanband.com

Also, don't miss Libloather's post #45 about Saddam's "Flintstone Fixation" (which I never knew anything about).

Saddam's "Flintstone village" was featured in "On the Road in Iraq With Our Troops and Gary Sinise" tonight. Just incredible.

If you missed this fantastic show, it re-airs at midnight ET (9pm PT).

[seekthetruth]

Excellent program and hope those who missed it will get to see it this evening when it is repeated on FOX. God Bless our wonderful troops, and God Bless Lt. Dan! :)

[loosefit]

I’m a huge George Bush fan and a staunch supporter of our boys. But, I got an uncomfortable feeling about this particular show. Did anyone else think this special was more about Gary Sinise than our boys? About halfway through I started counting the number of times he said “I did this and I did that.” Sorry, I just can’t stand people trying to exploit our troops for personal gain. On the other hand, regardless of any exploitation, our troops most likely did enjoy the visit. So I suppose there’s more good than harm. Michael Moore gets hammered for the same thing - exploiting our nation’s poor for his own self-promotional reasons.

[wastedyears]

This is also another great moving starring Gary Sinise. Probably woefully underknown, but a great movie nonetheless.