Remember that scene at the beginning of that horrible 80s movie "Escape from New York," where Air Force One gets hijacked by terrorists, and the President hides in a silver escape pod that gets jettisoned from the plane just before it explodes?
Here's another case of truth mirroring fiction. According to today's Washington Post...
| ABOARD AIR FORCE II -- Vice President Dick Cheney didn't suffer for lack of comfort on the cavernous cargo plane that he rode into Iraq and Afghanistan this week.
The Air Force loaded the plane with the "silver bullet," a mobile home in the sky strapped down in the middle of the belly. The accommodations included sleeping and working quarters that protected him from the noise and cold of the cargo hold during a more than five-hour flight into Baghdad. The rest of his traveling party was not so lucky. Cheney's senior staff and junior aides were assigned to a cramped three rows of seats in front of the bullet, while reporters and Secret Service agents had to sit in jump seats along the side with a view of Cheney's stainless steel exterior walls. |
What will they think of next? Maybe the government will start doing that trick from the movie "Brazil"... Remember that part in the movie where they use black-uniformed assault teams to abduct political opponents by crashing through walls of their houses, and then they stuff the screaming victims into black body-bags before transporting them to a secret torture chamber?
Hey, wait a minute...
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Posted by: graham at December 22, 2005 10:59 PM