WP: Bird Was Perfect, But Not for Dinner (Link to Story)

[kskiska]

By Mike Allen

President Bush's Baghdad turkey was for looking, not for eating.

In the most widely published image from his Thanksgiving day trip to Baghdad, the beaming president is wearing an Army workout jacket and surrounded by soldiers as he cradles a huge platter laden with a golden-brown turkey.

The bird is so perfect it looks as if it came from a food magazine, with bunches of grapes and other trimmings completing a Norman Rockwell image that evokes bounty and security in one of the most dangerous parts of the world.

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The scene, which lasted just a few seconds, was not visible to a reporter who was there but was recorded by a pool photographer and described by officials yesterday in response to questions raised in Washington.

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Nevertheless, the foray has opened new credibility questions for a White House that has dealt with issues as small as who placed the "Mission Accomplished" banner aboard the aircraft carrier Bush used to proclaim the end of major combat operations in Iraq, and as major as assertions about Saddam Hussein's arsenal of unconventional weapons and his ability to threaten the United States.

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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A33090-2003Dec3.html

[roguevalley]

1. check this steve bell cartoon

http://www.guardian.co.uk/cartoons/stevebell/0,7371,1099119,00.html

[DoYouEverWonder]

4. That's brutal

I love all the soldiers with their backs to him. Just like in the real pictures. Oops, I forgot those aren't real soldiers.

[Erika]

2. He's Out of Yale!

Bush keeps acting like he is still a wild and free college cheerleader. The eternal frat brat.

[neuvocat]

3. You know...

just what was that moron doing holding up a decorated turkey like that anyhow? They don't decorate it and then serve it. Sheesh!

No wonder his popularity dropped right after that trip.

[AO Tom]

5. Pay attention

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/news/archive/2003/12/02/national1730EST0659.DTL

Bush's job approval was at 61 percent in the National Annenberg Election Survey conducted the four days after the holiday, up from 56 percent during the four days before Thanksgiving. Disapproval of the president dropped from 41 percent to 36 percent, according to the poll released Tuesday.

Bush's popularity went up.

[karlschneider]

6. Yes, well, among the braindead, his "popularity" goes up when he takes

a shit.

[nolabels]

7. The only thing I end up paying is TAXES

The paying reasonable taxes part is not a problem. Having to help pay for some fool fly around to the other side of globe for a photo up with an inedible turkey kind of gets under my skin though

[janx]

9. Give it a week or two...

.

[buff2]

10. Hahahahahahahahahaha...........

That idiot is popular alright.....he's such a doofus he's good for laughs and that's all. He's only popular with the repukes. The rest of us with working brains know he's an idiot that has to be replaced ASAP.

[AO Tom]

12. Nope...

He's only popular with the repukes

Not quite.

http://www.azcentral.com/news/articles/1203poll03.html

Public opinion about Bush personally also improved during the four-day, post-holiday span, with an increase in the number who view him favorably from 65 percent to 72 percent. Republicans shifted from 83 percent with a favorable view of Bush personally to 94 percent. Democrats moved from 46 percent to 55 percent.

[janx]

8. Do you know that there are actually people who believe that

Bush* himself brought that turkey with him to Iraq?

Amazing.

I realized he picked up the platter after the tenth (or so) time the cable channels showed it.

Also, I believe some DU military types mentioned the fact that the centerpiece turkey was not uncommon (unless I read it elsewhere).

[buff2]

11. How dumb is TOO dumb?

Omg.....it just gets worse everyday. I'll bet we would REALLY freak out if we knew even HALF the blunders this idiot does in a days time. I wonder how long it's going to take the whore media to start getting really ashamed and embarrassed to keep up the bu$h lovefest? :puke:

[Moderator]

13. Duplicate

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=102&topic_id=251479&mesg_id=251479