I’m talking about the over-dramatized, unnecessary and expensive campaign event that you and I as tax-payers were forced to subsidize on the USS Abraham Lincoln:
ABOARD THE USS ABRAHAM LINCOLN – President George W. Bush didn't have to make a dramatic tailhook landing on this aircraft carrier. He could have flown by helicopter as presidents normally would, the White House said Friday.
Officials also acknowledged positioning the massive ship to provide the best TV angle for Bush's speech, with the sea as his background instead of the San Diego coastline.
Fleischer had said last week that Bush would have to fly out to the carrier by plane because the Lincoln would be hundreds of miles offshore.
As it turned out, the ship was just 39 miles from the coast when Bush scored a presidential first by landing on the flight deck in a small S-3B Viking jet that was snared by a restraining wire...
The Navy sent all but a couple of fighter jets off the plane Wednesday and Thursday. Those left behind were left on the flight deck as props for Bush's speech.
Why do I say this event captured the essence of this war? Well, both were over-dramatized, unnecessary and expensive - and both were designed to be campaign events.
Sure, the war in Iraq also had something to do with the huge oil reserves and setting dangerous new precedents in world diplomacy - but when compared to getting Junior elected, these were the proverbial “added-bonuses.”
And you don’t have to take my word for it – just see what the Bush regime folks had to say after the war about it really being about the need to project “a statement about its determination to fight terrorism (sic)” etc…
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