bush in iraq for thanksgiving. what a fake turkey!

remember when the Idiot Son went to iraq for thnxgiving 03? the plastic turkey and all that?

the whole thing was completely stupid - with the requisite props...

there was one part of the story that i've never been able to figure out:

White House changes story on Air Force One sighting

In his trip to Baghdad, President Bush said he would have immediately turned around had his cover been blown. In trying to play up the secrecy and dangerous nature of the trip, Bush's aides said that a British Airways pilot spotted the president's plane, radioing, "Did I just see Air Force One?" The White House said Air Force One responded: "Gulfstream 5" - a code word to disguise the plane - and the British Airways pilot "seemed to sense he was in on a secret and replied 'Oh.'"

But now it appears the story was a complete fabrication, designed only to hype the story. According to Reuters, "British Airways said yesterday that none of its pilots made contact with President Bush's plane during its secret flight to Baghdad on Thanksgiving, contradicting White House reports of a midair exchange that nearly prompted Bush to call off his trip."

Making things worse, the White House revised its story after revelations of the distortion. The White House now says "it had left the wrong impression" and that actually the conversation took place between Air Force One and the airport tower in London. But again, British Airways refuted this tale, with a spokesman for the company telling media "that none of its pilots has come forward to acknowledge either making or overhearing the purported conversation." (link)

i actually obsessed about it at the time, and i even posited that maybe the whole trip never happened. why on earth would they make up shit like this? and then they kept lying about it - trying different iterations of the same story - all of which were lies. it was quite a remarkable episode.

i appreciate their perceived need to propagandize their entire constructed universe - he truly is the potemkin president - but they really seemed to outdo themselves with this episode - they added a completely unnecessary 'fact' to their superspy narrative - it didnt add to the story, and it was verifiable...

it still baffles me.