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Wednesday, March 10, 2004
Mission Accomplished
Remember Bush's Thanksgiving trip to Iraq to see the troops? Well, it turns out that he only met with troops who supported him. The men and women who were risking their lives to fight Bush's trumped up war who didn't support Bush weren't invited and had to eat a crummy MRE in their quarters. According to a solider, a survey was conducted the day before Bush's visit to determine the level of support individual soldiers gave the president. Those who weren't not sufficiently "supportive" were not invited to Bush's Thanksgiving surprise:
Q: What did you think about President Bush?s Thanksgiving visit to Iraq?
A: I was there when President Bush came to the [Baghdad] airport. The day before, you had to fill out a questionnaire and answer questions, that would determine whether they would allow you in the room with the President.
Q: What was on the questionnaire?
A: "Do you support the president?"
Q: Really!
A: Yes.
Q: Members of the military were asked whether they support the president politically?
A: Yes. And if the answer was not a gung-ho, A-1, 100 percent yes, then you were not allowed into the cafeteria. You were not allowed to eat the Thanksgiving meal that day. You had an MRE.
Q: What's an MRE?
A: Meals ready to eat. We also call them "meals refused by Ethiopians."
Q: About this questionnaire, it raises a serious question about whether military personnel, or civil servants for that matter, should ever be asked questions by their supervisors about their political beliefs. It also raises the whole question of freedom of speech. In particular, the circumstances under which members of the military have freedom of speech.
A: There is none.
Q: Is a soldier free, for example, to speak to the media if it is in support of the president and his policies, but not free to do so if in opposition or if raising uncomfortable questions?
A: If you are spouting good things about the president, you are allowed to speak. If you are saying anything negative, you are not allowed to speak.
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