Year After Baghdad, Bush Visits Troops by Phone

CRAWFORD, Texas (Reuters) - President Bush (news - web sites) made Thanksgiving Day calls from his Texas ranch to U.S. troops abroad on Thursday, a year after he made a secret trip to spend the holiday with soldiers in Iraq (news - web sites).


"The president wanted to express his gratitude for their service and sacrifice and to wish them a happy Thanksgiving," said White House spokeswoman Claire Buchan.


Last year, Bush secretly flew to Baghdad for Thanksgiving dinner with U.S. troops.


This year, the president spent the holiday at his Crawford, Texas, ranch, where he also rode his bike, chopped some brush and had a traditional turkey-and-stuffing meal with family.

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:puke:

No longer needed props.

little shit to pick up the phone and call Iraq.

I'll bet those troops are really bummed out......NOT!!

How funny was that: a chickenhawk serving up a fake Turkey ? :)

Hey, no more campaigning for the Chimp, no quickie trips into dangerous areas to pose with plastic turkies. Just down to wingnut bidness for the next four years.

well, it's too late for the troops. bush will be sure to kill them all now that he's got what he wants.

There's tens of thousands of American boys and girls in Iraq who would give anything to be doing these things with their families right now.

FUCK YOU, GEORGE. FUCK YOU.

>President Bush (news - web sites) made Thanksgiving Day calls from his Texas ranch to U.S. troops abroad on Thursday, a year after he made a secret trip to spend the holiday with soldiers in Iraq (news - web sites).<

In the meantime, hundreds of thousands of families across our country either anxiously await news from their loved one in Iraq, or cry bitter tears at the first Thanksgiving dinner without the loved one that was killed in Iraq this year.

I guess I should be thankful he deigned to pick up the phone. After all, there was brush to be cut. Wouldn't want to waste too much time when there's no photo op involved.

Julie

But, his supporters ought to be disappointed anyway. He bravely phoned it in.

Our soldiers eat crap made by KBR at an outrageous taxpayer price, and fight a losing quagmire run by an incompentant asshole*!



U.S. Army soldiers line up for a traditional Thanksgiving Day dinner at the Forward Operating Base Marez dining facility in Mosul, Iraq (news - web sites), Thursday, Nov. 25, 2004. Insurgents rose up this month in Mosul, Iraq's third-largest city, during an offensive by U.S. and Iraqi forces in Fallujah. (AP Photo/Jim MacMillan)

All the Hard Work and Stuff. :puke:

bet my last peso the food server is making more money than the soldiers that put their lives on the line for that jerk in the oval office.

... to hold up another plastic turkey.

"you are suckers. I just called to stay how much I don't care about you."

Good GAWD, they are taking away our language bit by bit and turning it into LIES.

It is called Newspeak.

I cannot even begin to express my loathing and contempt for this horse-fearing,election-stealing,war-mongering son of a bitch.
Aaaarrrghhh!

People voted him in. It is what they wanted. They choose to want this war to continue. So I cannot do much about it. Young people are still signing up as we speak, to kill people that are now deemed a real enemy whereas in the beginning they were a people waiting for us to release them from a brutal dicatator., Many innocent people are being slaughtered.

What can I say and what can I think about that?

I am flat and do not support it. I simply cannot jump on that bandwagon.

I would have hung up on him. :puke: