FROM NEWSMAX.COM 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."