Stars and Stripes [3], the Pentagon-authorized newspaper of the U.S. military, is blowing the whistle on Bush's Thanksgiving photo op in Iraq. The soldiers who cheered Bush were pre-screened before his arrival, and others showing up for turkey were turned away.
In a separate letter to Stars and Stripes, Sgt. Loren Russell sticks up for his soldiers, who weren't on the invited list. "Imagine their dismay [4] when they walked 15 minutes to the Bob Hope Dining Facility," Russell writes, "only to find that they were turned away from their evening meal because they were in the wrong unit."