Diego Garcia? Been there...and it's pretty for a day-
Beware of a hammerhead named Hector...all 30+ feet of him!
Posted on 09/03/2007 2:52:03 PM PDT by vietvet67
White House press corps pool report from President Bush's unannounced trip to Iraq.
POTUS visits Iraq’s al Anbar Province
In a trip shrouded in secrecy, President Bush made a surprise visit to Iraq’s al Asad Air Base Monday. The base is in the heart of al Anbar Province, which Bush has often pointed to as an example of the success of his troop surge in creating space for grassroots political reconciliation.
At the huge, isolated, Saddam-era base — which has a 21-kilometer perimeter and is home to some 10,000 U.S. troops — Bush was to meet with Gen. David Petraeus, Ambassador Ryan C. Crocker, Defense Secretary Robert Gates — who traveled to Iraq on his plane ahead of Bush -- Admiral Fallon, the Commander of CENTCOM [Adm. Fallon's title has been corrected] and Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, who was aboard Air Force One.
Afterward, Bush was to meet with Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki and other members of the central government. Bush was to make a statement after that. Then, Bush was to follow that session with a meeting with Sunni tribal and provincial leaders who have taken the lead in battling Al Qaeda and who are beginning to make political progress in this ethnically homogenous area of Iraq.
POTUS was to cap his six hours on the ground here with a short address — maybe 10 or 15 minutes — to about 750 troops, Dana Perino said. After that, we are on our way to Australia, with a refueling stop at Diego Garcia.
(Excerpt) Read more at politico.com ...
Good for him.
Lucky dogs!
Yeppers. Diego Garcia isn’t the ends of the earth but you can see them from there.
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