Fox reports on those Y-U-M-M-Y Halliburton Thanksgiving troop meals

[Bush_Eats_Beef]

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,176611,00.html

Meanwhile, most of the more than 140,000 U.S. troops in Iraq got a traditional Thanksgiving meal of turkey and all the trimmings at their bases Thursday. In Baghdad, they were visited by U.S. Ambassador Zalmay Khalilzad, who called their service "a huge sacrifice, but a sacrifice for a good cause."

"It's not my grandmother's dinner but it was pretty good," Sgt. Amber Ott at Camp Prosperity in Baghdad, told FOX News about the Thanksgiving feast provided for the troops. "They did a great job, a great, great job. I couldn't have expected anything better than what they did, it was awesome."

Although Ott ate turkey, stuffing and pumpkin pie, among other tasty treats, she opted out of partaking of the roasted stuffed pigs lying on the dinner tables being carved up. "They freaked me out, big time. The little olive eyeballs — they freaked me out," Ott said. Soldiers in Baghdad also ran in a 5-kilometer "Turkey Trot" race, then enjoyed a large big spread including turkey, ham, mashed potatoes, stuffing, sweet potatoes, shrimp cocktail and about five kinds of pie for dessert.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,176611,00.html

...MEANWHILE, ELSEWHERE IN IRAQ...



Bloody day in Iraq
Dozens killed, wounded in bombings.

FULL STORY

GRIM HOLIDAY FOR GI'S

[ChairmanAgnostic]

1. success! Mission accomplished! Dinner is served!

What a measuring stick.

[elehhhhna]

2. Whole roasted pigs in Muslim country? cute.

[Burried News]

6. Agree. Stupid. Plain stupid to do this.

[BlueJazz]

3. On the way home (a while ago) NPR had a Guy on the Radio....

..ranting about the cost per troop..Big Hal is charging the general accounting office 47 dollars (and change) per serving..
Christ!

(this also posted on another thread)

[Sallow]

11. Whoa.

Are these free ranged Turkeys? Like our president and vice president?

[Botany]

4. I guess they don't have to serve these guys

[Missy Vixen]

5. There was a pathetic segment on CBS afternoon news

I was so mad I just about threw something at the television. One of the more airheaded reporters I have ever seen on network television was quizzing those standing in line for the tasty Thanksgiving meal. "What are the top ten best things about Thanksgiving in Iraq?" was the question. Soldier after soldier looked VERY uncomfortable, would not answer, etcetera.

What a stomach turning segment. Sweetheart, someone should take away your "journalist" badge. Wouldn't it have been a better idea to use the 5 minute segment for some of these soldiers to be able to say "hello" to their loved ones back home, instead of badgering them? Hell, it would be best of all if they weren't being tormented on television because they were too busy at HOME with their loved ones, where they should be!

I'm still mad.

Julie

[Ferret Annica]

9. They were uncomfortable because they are censored

Military people are aware that the wrong words that go counter to the official party line get them smoked like a cheap cigar. That is why they seemed uncomfortable.

Bush and his team of lying criminals want these press contacts to turn into touching "Hi Mom! Hi Pop!" schemes. Those have their place, but when I watch the news, I was the impartial truth from the media, and the brass and their civilian handlers do what they can to foil any of what little truth comes out of this war zone and this is indicative of what is wrong with this war.

You should be angry these men are not home where they should be instead of partaking in an illegal and immoral war, not whether a couple of them get to say "Hi Mom, Hi Pop" to the nice camera to make people forget why it is wrong for these men to be where they are.

[Missy Vixen]

10. Ferret Mike

You wrote:

>You should be angry these men are not home where they should be instead of partaking in an illegal and immoral war, not whether a couple of them get to say "Hi Mom, Hi Pop" to the nice camera to make people forget why it is wrong for these men to be where they are.<

I previously wrote:

>Hell, it would be best of all if they weren't being tormented on television because they were too busy at HOME with their loved ones, where they should be!<

Thanks,
Julie

[Ferret Annica]

12. Thanks

Thanks for the direct to that part of your comment. I was commenting as someone who has seen the utter paranoia of any contact with troops by the power elite as a participant in George HW Bush's war in Panama.

I definitely meant no inference toward you in any negative sense.

[Missy Vixen]

13. Thank you for your service, Ferret Mike

It's good to have more vets on DU! Thank you for your kind response.

>utter paranoia of any contact with troops by the power elite as a participant in George HW Bush's war in Panama.<

I felt so badly that these troops not only had to endure Thanksgiving away from their families, they had to deal with a woman who thought it was her perfect right to badger them as well.

If nobody's told you previously, welcome to DU! :hi:

Julie

[Ferret Annica]

14. I didn't see the interviews for sound bites

from the troops you speak of, but I can appreciate how cluelessly she imposed a frightening situation on them.

When the leaders see the troops questioned, they are always dying to know what they said and willing to nuke someone as an example of why one should never speak their mind to the press.

Make no mistake about it, the troops know this all too well. If these men looked ill at ease, I guarantee that this is the reason for it.

It is indeed a damn shame these men are not home sharing the holidays with their loved ones as they should be.

Current military doctrine concerning the press has nothing to do with facilitating their efforts to show the truth in a war zone; it is all about manipulating them to get them to present the 'correct' image and spin.

Thank you for the words of welcome too by the way. I have posted many years on many different forums without paying too much attention to DU. It is a very interesting forum I plan on spending much more time in, although I still tend to go to forums like libertypost.org because conservative hunting season is 365 days a year there too, with many targets of opportunity to draw a bead on.

If I could still go to Free Republic and openly rip up the intellectually lazy FReeper trash there, I'd do that too. ;-)

[Hyernel]

7. Looks like some kind of burrio there too.

Halliburton probably charged the Army $3000 per dinner.

[Hyernel]

8. I meant "burrito"

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