Is this Tweedy in the picture with Rumsfeld and Saddam?

[slater71]

I`m not sure as the picture is grainy. But it sure does look like him.
http://www.iranchamber.com/history/articles/arming_iraq.php

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1. Hell no.

Looks like Dan Qualyle to me. :-)

[UTUSN]

2. Nope. For starters, Tweety is a physical coward, seldom leaves the desk

And whoever the grainy dude is, Tweety never looked semi-fit. Thirdly, there would be an age gap with the grainy dude.

About the only time Tweety has attempted physical derring-do (and meeting Saddam would qualify), was when the Enron story was breaking hard and Tweety was avoiding it like the plague. (He still hasn't done a segment on this Repuke corruption story insofar as I know.) He spent that spring daily drumbeating about imminent world war in the Middle East, climaxing finally with a chopper ride over ARAFAT's besieged headquarters. Whorealdo-like, he was hanging on for dear life with the open hatch, and wearing sunglasses that were supposed to hide his FEAR-----his palpable, physical, crap-in-the-pants FEAR!!!1

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3. Actually, he did look thin, once. When he got malaria.

Where did he go when he had the encounter with the heroic mosquito?

[UTUSN]

4. Haha - he admitted it might have been "AIRPORT malaria"

It's hard to tell which of the evil twin Tweeties he's describing.


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August 19, 2002

http://peacecorpsonline.org/messages/messages/2629/1008953.html

Sweating it out - How I survived my battle with malaria

By Chris Matthews

.... The following weekend, I was delirious. My brain, which I had hoped to employ to finish writing a book and then a speech I had to give the following week, kept cooking on one impenetrable problem after another. Each crazed quandary melted into the next.

My temperature hit 103 - way too high for a guy my age.

Still, I kept thinking - to the extent my brain was working - it was some kind of flu. I could sweat it out. ....

A STAY AT ‘CLUB SIB’

It was unmistakable from my blood smear, he said. The parasites that had taken over an unhealthy number of my red blood cells were all over it.

I had the species of malaria, falciparum, which is the most aggressive. It kills you either by clogging up the arteries to your brain or by simply killing enough blood cells to cause extreme anemia.

Parasites had taken over 4 percent to 5 percent of my blood cells. A pathologist at Sibley told my wife Kathleen that he’d never seen so many parasites on one slide.

With all those rioting bugs racing through my brain, no wonder I was delirious. ...

I suppose Africa, too, is where I was bitten. My family and I were there at Christmastime. Though all the books say you get the bad symptoms within about two weeks, I may have taken enough malaria pills to suppress it all these seven months.

None of the doctors I’ve spoken to can quite explain how I got it. It may have been something I got visiting the West Bank in May or Vietnam last spring. It may be one of those rare cases of "airport" malaria where the victim gets bit by a mosquito that had just bitten someone who was infected. ....

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[emulatorloo]

5. What about tweety's time in the Peace Corp? n/t

[UTUSN]

7. He has OPENLY said he picked the PC *ONLY* to get out of Vietnam

He did not go for a mainly NOBLE reason. It would take more courage to fight for Conscientious Objector status or protest by going to jail or seeking refuge in Canada--or, I might add, by just plain GOING to Vietnam the way the rest of us po'boys did. His joining the Peace Corps was the Poor Man's establishment "out", the mirror image to Shrub's National Guard establishment "out" for the champaigne kids.

There is no doubt that for his generation of Irish (& other) Catholics, JFK was a HUGH!!1 inspiration --so there's a LITTLE of that-- which is probably why he deserted his family's "cloth coat Republicanism" (which he has now gone BACK to). He's such a glory hound that now, AFTER THE FACT, he brags about things he wasn't bragging about before. He says he "walked the same ground in Africa that CHURCHILL walked." And after the Capitol policemen were shot, Tweety suddenly remembered that he had worked as one of those when he was starting out. This would be a 3-months' stint that was akin to a rent-a-cop. It was only when the two cops were annointed as "heroes" that he claimed the job.

[Benhurst]

6. Jeff Gannon before he started shaving his head?