$7 of YOUR MONEY-That's all it really cost.

[underpants]

White House Press Secretary Ari Fleischer said the price difference between a jet and helicopter landing on the carrier is $7. Landing the presidential helicopter on the carrier would cost about $6,552 per hour, he said, compared with the $6,559-per-hour of landing the S-3B Viking jet.
http://www.cnn.com/2003/ALLPOLITICS/05/08/bush.lincoln/




Explanation for Bush's Carrier Landing Altered
By Dana Milbank
Washington Post Staff Writer
Wednesday, May 7, 2003; Page A20
http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A22502-2003May6?language=printer

White House officials had said, both before and after Bush's landing in a Navy S-3B Viking jet, that he took the plane solely to avoid inconveniencing the sailors, who were returning home after a deployment of nearly 10 months. The officials said that Bush decided not to wait until the ship was in helicopter range to avoid delaying the troops' homecoming.

But instead of the carrier being hundreds of miles offshore, as aides had said it would be, the Lincoln was only about 30 miles from the coast when Bush made his "tail-hook" landing, in which the jet was stopped by cables on deck. Navy officers slowed and turned the ship when land became visible.

Bush wanted "to see an aircraft landing the same way that the pilots saw an aircraft landing," White House press secretary Ari Fleischer said yesterday. "He wanted to see it as realistically as possible. And that's why, once the initial decision was made to fly out on the Viking, even when a helicopter option became doable, the president decided instead he wanted to still take the Viking."

Fleischer said the carrier had come hundreds of miles closer to shore than expected because of the weather.

[NV Whino]

1. What a crock!

And just think we could have saved $6,552 if he hadn't landed at all.

:grr:

[havocmom]

2. Does that include the price of keeping the bird farm at sea an extra day

for the stunt and turning it so the cameras do no see the coast behind AWOL?

[underpants]

5. Apparently not

Republicans aren't very good with figurin' and money as we have seen.

[acmavm]

3. One of many phony set-ups that will go down in infamy along with the

rest of the bush** 'legacy'.

[lonestarnot]

4. Hypocrisy concludes with raw exposure naked and bleeding!