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TomInTib Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-28-07 07:44 PM
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Cheney's plane (Spirit of Strom Thurmond)
That's right, folks.

No kidding, right over the door.

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HiFructosePronSyrup Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-28-07 07:45 PM
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1. Fitting
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Catherine Vincent Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-28-07 07:45 PM
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2. Spirit of Strom Thurmond/Sharpton
:)
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Sequoia Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-28-07 07:45 PM
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3. Racist jerk.
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SallyMander Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-28-07 07:50 PM
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4. wow
really?

that's not photoshopped?
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TomInTib Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-28-07 07:59 PM
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6. Not photoshopped.
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SallyMander Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-28-07 08:03 PM
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7. that totally blows my mind
:crazy:
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HooptieWagon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-28-07 07:50 PM
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5. Good God!!!
That's crass.
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blogslut Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-28-07 08:16 PM
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8. Great pic
But I don't believe that is Cheney's plane. According to AFP:

A US-led coalition jet flies over Bagram Air Base. Security fears led US Vice President Dick Cheney to exchange his Air Force Two suite for a high-tech trailer chained to the floor of a cavernous military plane for his visits to Pakistan and Afghanistan.(AFP/Shah Marai)


This is Cheney's plane (Air Force Two):

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TomInTib Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-28-07 08:27 PM
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9. He uses a C17 when traveling to the ME
High-tech trailer? It's an Airsteam, blogslut.

This is the Airstream that was parked in the bay of the C-17 which carried Cheney into war zones. Inside, its gray-leather seating and paneled walls provided a comfortable shelter within the loud bay of the transport jet. Cheney spent a moment in here speaking with reporters about the base bombing.
http://newsblogs.chicagotribune.com/news_theswamp/2007/02/washington_hidi.html
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blogslut Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-28-07 08:33 PM
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10. Yes, but
Edited on Wed Feb-28-07 08:35 PM by blogslut
The Airstream is INSIDE an Air Force jet. The fascade of that plane you posted is the the U.S. Air Force's choice, not Cheney's.

EDIT: As for the descriptor -high tech trailer- that is the AFP's. Not mine. I would prefer they call it portable evil lair. :)
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lutefisk Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-28-07 09:49 PM
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12. Looks more like high-tech prisoner transport
Delivering its criminal, arrogant, draft-dodging cargo to the International Criminal Court in the Netherlands. At least that's what it looks like to me.
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bumblebee1 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-28-07 09:22 PM
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11. I'm surprised these nimrods don't have a Spirit of Ronald Reagan plane yet.
Maybe, I shouldn't give them any ideas. At least, Strom Thurmond surved in one of the Airborne units in WWII.
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aint_no_life_nowhere Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-28-07 10:35 PM
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13. "The Spirit Of Vlad Drakul" written on Cheney's coffin, inside Cheney's plane
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havocmom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-28-07 10:45 PM
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14. Spirit of Vlad Drakul on the outside of the coffin that's inside the trailer, inside the plane?
This is getting a bit like the kids' song about the Hole in the Bottom of the Sea ;)
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Miss Marmelstein Donating Member (650 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-28-07 10:57 PM
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15. Sec. of Defense Gates.....
arrived in Baghdad for his first surprise visit on this same plane.

I thought :wtf:when Gates exited the plane and you could read 'The Spirit of Strom Thurmond' over the door.
:puke:
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LeftishBrit Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-01-07 06:59 AM
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16. (Self-deleted as dupe)
Edited on Thu Mar-01-07 06:59 AM by LeftishBrit
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LeftishBrit Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-01-07 06:59 AM
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17. Why would ANY plane have 'Spirit of Strom Thurmond' on it!
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wicket Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-01-07 08:57 PM
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18. kick
:kick:
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