Tuesday, Dec. 2, 2003 12:44 a.m. EST Bagram GI:
Troops Waited While Hillary Chowed Down
U.S. Sen. Hillary Clinton forced U.S. troops stationed
at Bagram Air Base
in Afghanistan to wait for their Thanksgiving dinner last Thursday while
she
and her entourage arrived late, then cut in line and were served first.
A soldier who witnessed the scene tells NewsMax:
"Thanksgiving Dinner started at 3 p.m. that day,
so the line was forming
around 2:30 p.m. She didn't show up until around 3:30 p.m.
"Once she got there," our source maintains,
"Clinton and her entourage
bumped everyone in line, forcing them to wait almost an extra
hour."
The brass at Bagram apparently had a hard time
rounding up New Yorkers who
wanted to have dinner with Clinton, D-N.Y. Only six GIs responded to an
e-mail
sent out last week that stated, "Looking for military members from
New York
and Rhode Island interested in meeting their Senator/Congressman."
People magazine was on hand to cover the event and
wanted to interview the
troops for reaction to Clinton's visit.
"But they were getting declined left and
right," our source said. "People
were actually telling the reporters, 'You don't want to print what I
think
about her and her visit.'"
After Clinton and her entourage departed, the only
topics GIs wanted to
talk about were "how great the food was and how fantastic they
thought
George
Bush's visit to Iraq was."
