{"id":261,"date":"2003-12-04T11:35:38","date_gmt":"2003-12-04T16:35:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wordpress\/2003\/12\/more_irony\/"},"modified":"2003-12-04T11:35:38","modified_gmt":"2003-12-04T16:35:38","slug":"more_irony","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2003\/12\/more_irony\/","title":{"rendered":"More Irony"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Not only was Bush <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/stories\/2003\/12\/04\/politics\/main586761.shtml\">photographed with a decorative bird<\/a> during his Thanksgiving photo op, but it was also a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thehill.com\/open_secrets\/120303.aspx\">Halliburton turkey<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Holiday Turns Iraq into Test Kitchen<br \/>\nHere\ufffds something for culinary conspiracy buffs to feast on: President Bush\ufffds surprise Thanksgiving dinner in Baghdad was provided by Kellogg Brown &#038; Root (KBR), a division of Halliburton, the Houston oil conglomerate once headed by Vice President Dick Cheney.<br \/>\nAside from doing infrastructure repairs in Iraq, KBR is also contracted to feed U.S. Army troops there, and on Thanksgiving that included the commander in chief.<br \/>\nVisitors to Iraq who have sampled KBR\ufffds menu at the Baghdad airport base, where the president dined, give it a modified thumbs up.<br \/>\n\ufffdIt was good,\ufffd said Larry Korb of the Center for American Progress, who ate at the airport a month ago. \ufffdI broke my plastic knife on the meat once, but the food was good.\ufffd<br \/>\nSo good apparently that it\ufffds been reported Air Force personnel in Iraq are sneaking into Army mess tents to dine on KBR meals. The Air Force does its own catering.<br \/>\nSomewhat overshadowed by Bush\ufffds Thanksgiving trip to Baghdad was the arrival the next day of Sens. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.) and Jack Reed (D-R.I.). News photos of the two separate visits couldn\ufffdt have provided a better contrast in gastro-political styles.<br \/>\nThere was Bush dressed in an Army jacket serving GIs turkey with all the trimmings. Clinton showed up in a power pantsuit and toured U.S. military facilities carrying a styrofoam cup of coffee.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2003\/12\/more_irony\/\" rel=\"bookmark\" title=\"Permalink to More Irony\"><p>Not only was Bush photographed with a decorative bird during his Thanksgiving photo op, but it was also a Halliburton turkey: Holiday Turns Iraq into Test Kitchen Here\ufffds something for culinary conspiracy buffs to feast on: President Bush\ufffds surprise Thanksgiving dinner in Baghdad was provided by Kellogg Brown &#038; Root (KBR), a division of Halliburton, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n<\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-261","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"h-entry","8":"hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=261"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}