Re: A Hero for Our Times

"doyle" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> "Robert McClelland" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> >
> > "Stan (the Man)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> > news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > >
> > >
> > > Alan Hope wrote:
> > > > Stan (the Man) goes:
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >>Calling something a "profoundly selfish act" requires no mind
reading?
> > > >>Regardless, the reaction of the troops requires no mind reading. It
> was
> > > >>there for all to see. Haven't heard many negative responses from
them.
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > They're not allowed to talk to anyone who might pass the message on,
> > > > of course.
> > >
> > > Cite?
> >
> >
> > COLORADO SPRINGS - Before the press was herded into the giant hangar in
> > advance of George W. Bush's pep rally/photo op with the Fort Carson
> troops,
> > we were given the rules.
> >
> > No talking to the troops before the rally.
> > No talking to the troops during the rally.
> > No talking to the troops after the rally.
> > http://tinyurl.com/wjk8
>
> An op-ed?  And I'll admit, geography was never my best subject but, I
really
> don't think there's a place named Colorado Springs located in Iraq.


It's not an op-ed. This reporter is reporting on the events of the trip. In
case you missed it, he was one of the reporters who accompanied Bush on his
trip to Baghdad. And he is the third reporter that was on the trip, that
I've heard, to mention they were forbidden from talking to the soldiers.

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