Cheney has Air Stream Motor Home installed in Plane for Iraq Visit!

[KoKo]

Our taxpayers dollars at work! How the hell did they get a motor home inside a C-17 cargo plane in time for his "surprise" visit? Wouldn't that take a bit of time to assemble. :eyes:

Cheney, in Surprise Visit, Hails Iraq Efforts

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By RICHARD W. STEVENSON
Published: December 19, 2005



In his pool report to colleagues, Stevenson wrote that Cheney switched from his red, white and blue 757 to a C-17 cargo plane for the unannounced flight into Baghdad. "An enormous Airstream motor home had been custom-fitted inside the center of the plane so that the vice president could travel in comfort. Lower level Cheney staffers sat in three rows of seats in front of Airstream II, while your poolers were herded over to the steel-and-canvas contraptions lining the sides of the plane. Journalists had a front row seat to the massive stainless steel sides of the motor home."

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/12/19/international/middleeast/19iraq.html

[Inland]

1. "And several coolers of spare organs harvested from luckless Iraqis,

so Mr. Cheney's reanimated corpse can travel in comfort!"

[hippiechick]

2. Why am I having visions of 'Stripes' and that ugly ass Winnebago?

:rofl:

[Jokerman]

10. "This is one heavily-armed recreational vehicle"

My thoughts exactly.

[bullwinkle428]

13. The "Urban Assault Vehicle" - I loved "Stripes"!!

[SeveneightyWhoa]

3. It's probably a mini-hospital.

We all know Cheney can't travel without the medical necessities.

[GreenPartyVoter]

6. I bet you are right!

[RUMMYisFROSTED]

23. The Heart-Lung Machine XRB.

[WannaJumpMyScooter]

4. at last... his undisclosed location!

[grasswire]

5. did an ambulance travel with him?

the one that has a full cardiac lab inside?

[KoKo]

21. Maybe it was shoved in at the rear of the Airstream...or maybe it was IN

the Airstream.... Sheesh...if he's in that bad a shape it's amazing they can haul his ass over to the cable shows and make it on the never-ending Bush Campaign trail...but he seems to manage it.

He's like Sharon....HUGE and doesn't care about his health...but is LUCKIER THAN HELL...seemingly that EVIL keeps folks healthier than the rest of us. :eyes:

[Squatch]

7. They can just drag it on

"How the hell did they get a motor home inside a C-17 cargo plane"

If a C-17 can carry a Striker vehicle, it can sure as hell carry an Airstream.

[Stephanie]

8. good lord!

that's outrageous

[dusmcj]

9. OHMUGOD THIS IS HUGH!11 LOL the undisclosed location has been disclosed!1!

"Crashcart" Dick "Undisclosed Location" Cheney actually takes his own crashcart with him. Talk about cocooning, I can just imagine the PortaBunker glowing eerily in the cargo hold of the C17, lit only by the dull green (red ?) lighting of the nighttime illumination in the giant cargo plane's interior. The journalists exiled to the comfy frame-and-mesh seating and thick airforce blankets of steerage class can only wonder at what course for the world is being formulated behind the blastproof walls of the darkly sleek metal box. I wonder if the Veep and Lynne have ever explored its connubial uses - I guess it's easy to join the mile high club when you Go AirForce...

And all because that b!tch Hillary (you go, gal!) called him on his Dicksize. Dick-size, get it ? Bwahahahaha LOL this is HUGH !!!!!11!!!1!!!!111!!!!! ROTFLMACO.

[electron_blue]

11. Make him travel in "freight"

[dweller]

12. heavily fortified with the best plate armor

i'd bet.

dp

[Mind_your_head]

14. He probably had a cardiac team with him as well

Wonder where they got to sit....facing the sides of the Winnebago like the journalists?

[Javaman]

15. sounds like he's going to stay for a while...

heck of a job, condi...

[gorgan]

16. Interior Image

You can even see those folding jump seats.

[KoKo]

17. Amazing Photo...A football field would fit in there!

Nothing like flying with your "home comforts" aboard...and the MedVac Team who can cater to your every need. :eyes:

[WilliamPitt]

18. No surprise

He has a terrible heart condition. Trips like this could kill him. I'd bet you a dollar that 'traveling in comfort' means IV drips and a big fat bed...and a defribulator.

[harpo]

19. Cheney is a PUSSY for not going announced and in AirForce2

[PatGund]

32. Technically, he was....

Any USAF aircraft he's on has the call sign "Air Force Two". Simular thing with Shrub. If Shrub was to get into a USAF cessna trainer, that trainer would have the call sign "Air Force One".

When Nixon resigned, he was still president until Gerald Ford took the oath of office. Ford took the office while Nixon was in flight. When that 707 took off, it had the call sign "Air Force One". Midway into the flight, Ford took office and the call sign became "Special Air Mission (SAM) 27000"

[satya]

20. How many Gulf Coasters could be housed and fed for what that cost?

That's our money he's spending, folks.

[KoKo]

24. Can you IMAGINE THE PRESS if Gore had an "Airstream Home" put in

the VP's Cargo Plane? Can you imagine Gore having to fly into a country in secret with armed guards not on Air Force II but on a Cargo Plane retrofitted like Cheney had and the press not scurring around in OUTRAGE?

:eyes: Oh...the times we live in...it's wearying to mens and females souls.....THE HYPOCRACY! THE LACK OF OUTRAGE FOR THE MOST AGGREGIOUS TRANSGRESSIONS of our DEMOCRACY!

[KoKo]

26. It could have housed one needy Gulf Family...that "Airstream"

couldn't it. And, it would have been more important that his "photo op" which was so fake that even the troops could see through it.

[FreedomAngel82]

22. Ugh

What a fat pig. And you know if this was Al Gore the "liberal media" would be all over it.

[lonestarnot]

25. That piece of shit. Is it I.E.D. proofed?

[DoctorMyEyes]

27. The article has been scrubbed!

I went to the article you linked to - same headline, same reporter - NO mention of the airstream now.

[eridani]

28. Yes, it has been scrubbed!

Please! Does anyone have a screenshot of the original?

[eridani]

30. Mention of it in the LA times--can't find any pictures

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-bush19dec19,0,1629511.story?page=2&coll=la-home-headlines

Using an Airstream travel trailer placed inside a C-17 transport plane as his office and private quarters, Cheney flew overnight from England to Baghdad, where he met with Iraqi leaders and military commanders in the Green Zone, so called for its heavy fortifications. He later attended an Iraqi training exercise at Taji Air Base and spoke to troops at Al-Asad Air Base in western Iraq.

http://64.233.187.104/search?q=cache:ry5_7qtL-F4J:www.usnews.com/usnews/news/articles/cheneytrip/notebook_314.htm+airstream+c-17+cheney&hl=en

Trading in his white-and-blue 747 jumbo jet for a bare-bones Air Force C-17 Globemaster cargo aircraft, the vice president and his entourage never went beyond the airport during his two-hour stopover. (The plane itself was interesting: It was equipped with an Airstream trailer that served as a makeshift office and a surgical table laid out with a stretcher covered in a white sheet. Someone had draped a large American flag at the front of the plane, just above supplies that included jars of Vlasic kosher pickles.)

[me b zola]

29. Airstream ll

:rofl:

[lumpy]

31. And these jerks want the American

people to make sacrifices! Ferking Pig!

[eleny]

33. A travelling hospital, "no doubt"

[B Calm]

34. This fucking shit of throwing away my tax dollars has to stop!

Conservative, my ass!

[chat_noir]

35. contact Editor & Publisher regarding NYT scrub?

Is this the type of article that they are interested in?

http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/about_us/contacts.jsp

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