OpEd: Hero Sandwiches

[Dave Farber <dave () farber net>]

> Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2003 08:13:23 -0400
> From: Richard Forno <rforno () infowarrior org>
> Subject: OpEd: Hero Sandwiches
> To: Dave Farber <dave () farber net>
>
>
> >From the Hartford Advocate:
>
> Not since the days of Marie Antoinette, or at least Nancy Reagan, has there
> been such a disconnect between the ruling elite and what Marie and Nancy
> might call the unwashed masses. A potent symbol of this cynical detachment
> is provided by George W. Bush's month-long vacation, during which his only
> forays among the unwashed masses have been to whack his little white balls
> around a golf course -- and to host a "down-home" barbecue to shake down
> rich donors for another run at the White House. The cover charge for
> barbecue with the Bushes? Each of the 350 "very special guests" paid $50,000
> to nibble on those Republican pig and cow carcasses.
>
> Meanwhile, the temperature in Iraq is 30 degrees hotter than it is in
> Crawford, Texas, and 20 degrees hotter than what killed 3,000 French people
> and hundreds of other Europeans. Iraq is, in fact, so hot that official
> meteorological data has been blocked from the media by the Department of
> Defense, presumably so that Americans won't know that our troops are the
> human equivalent of down-home barbecue. What the DoD has also tried to keep
> a lid on, though foreign news services haven't been so easily bullied as the
> embedded American press, is that our troops are operating in this inferno
> without adequate water supplies, sanitation, shelter or barbecue --
> actually, any type of food.
>
> < snip >
>
> http://hartfordadvocate.com/gbase/News/content?oid=oid:29956

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