Turkey shoot in Iraq.
[Great quote. -Thomas]
Let Them Eat Turkey
By Ivan Eland*
Bill Clinton should be green with envy. George W. Bush, Clinton’s successor and bird of a feather in his quest to stay out of the jungles of Vietnam, in one fell swoop has addressed doubts about both his personal courage and his solidarity with soldiers risking their lives in Iraq. Bush’s turkey day trot to Iraq for dinner was a masterful stroke in public relations — at least in the short-term. In the long-term, it could put the Bush presidency further in the soup (or the gravy, as the case may be).
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Bush’s Iraq policy may be best symbolized, although inadvertently, by the central photo op of the trip: the president presenting a turkey to the troops.